[sdegutis]

> 100 years from now, it's highly unlikely that the screen-and-keyboard model of data ingestion will be regarded as anything but a historically important link in data evolution, cast away in favor of more tactile, neurochemical, and cybernetic interfaces.

Very imaginative and sci-fi, but not likely. Just because we've advanced this fast in the past 50 years doesn't mean we'll be able to keep this rate up. There are physical limits to the things we can do, even if we keep gaining knowledge at the same speed. We'd have to break a lot of very big scientific barriers before any such technology would be both practical and affordable.

[jMyles]

Really? It seems to me that the touchscreen has already supplanted the screen-and-keyboard for most people for most of their day.

[marssaxman]

If that's really true, I feel sorry for them! My experience with touchscreens has been that they are mostly sort of okay in small doses, if that's all you've got - but if I need to write anything longer than a sentence or two, or read anything that takes longer than a minute or two, I'll wait til I can use a computer instead.

[sdegutis]

Yep. 99% of programmers use an actual computer to type their code into, rather than typing on an iPad or other touch screen. And 95% of programming still requires manipulating text.

[JeffreyKaine]

And 99.9% of humans are not programmers.