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Will we still be using hardware keyboards 73 years from now?

• javajosh 6y ago
  Yes. I think it will always be useful to have a method of precise, non-verbal communication produced by the rapid trigger of physical switches in a particular order. The physicality of the switches is actually quite important to this behavior. So as long as we need to type, I would expect hardware keyboards to be desirable. We may not need to type, however. We might dictate or think our words; however when absolute precision is required, I'm pretty sure a text-level voice interface is always going to be pretty tough to do well.
• bentcorner 6y ago
  I think we'll still be using physical buttons/switches 73 years from now, and qwerty keyboards will still exist. The qwerty layout will definitely be around. Hardware keyboards will be a niche compared to all the other kinds of input types we'll have in the future. I'd like to say that hardware keyboards will be the domain of knowledge work but 73 years is a long time.