[forgottenpaswrd]

"I have yet to see how touching the screen will help me write software (or a word document for that matter) better or that my finger is precise enough to design with."

It will never do. Typing is just so much faster than touching. But it does not matter because: TALKING is much better than typing for textual data.

On the other hand, touching is so much better for edition of already introduced data, the only problem is that software is designed around keyboards, for example moving letters instead of words.