At the same time, there's hardly a joystick market anymore. HCI controls evolve over time as software and the users of software strike a balance between those i

At the same time, there's hardly a joystick market anymore. HCI controls evolve over time as software and the users of software strike a balance between those instruments. There are real practical reasons that voice recognition will continue to grow as secondary and likely primary ways to interact with our devices and environment. Voice recognition increases our information bandwidth and as our devices scale down in size, despite current trends with cellphone sizes, voice recognition becomes a quicker way to convey information than tapping individual keys on small or in some cases completely absent keyboards. I worked on Swype, and that was one of our goals. We wanted to allow people to be able to think in terms of sentences and not in terms of words by largely eliminating the need to hunt and peck for individual keys that make up words. Voice recognition was always seen as a further increase of information bandwidth and was one of the reasons we integrated with Vlingo and Google, and now that the keyboard is owned by Nuance, Dragon.