[miramba]

It seems we are so amazingly primitive that we still think touch screens are a pretty neat idea for anything. But I’m sure analog controls will come back at some time in the future: First in really expensive cars, as expression of luxury. Only cheap cars will still have the cheap touch screens. Slowly, the old new way of interaction will trickle down to anything else. Like it went for the digital watch, ubiquitous for a short time, then a return to analog. Although those Casios seem to have a retro-retro comeback lately. I think even real keyboards might be a cool feature of future high-end smartphones.

[CRConrad]

> It seems we are so amazingly primitive that we still think touch screens are a pretty neat idea for anything.

That looks familiar somehow... How many leaves should I pay you for this insight?

[kaba0]

I mean, for most things a touchscreen is pretty much the ultimate human interface — we are fundamentally hand-based creatures and the ability to re-render the same glasspane into a controller for anything is still magic.

There are of course things where more specialized inputs are required, but for the rest, touchscreens are here to stay*

* One improvement I would like to see it about their surface — we can no longer blind type on phones, because we can’t feel the borders of the buttons - but I think we have the tech to dynamically make the screen’s surface rougher/smoother. Another idea is to bring back 3D touch (and potentially improve on that - maybe it could even take some 3D vector as input?)