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Worth considering that QWERTY keyboards have been the method-of-choice for text-entry for over 100 years. I'm not saying it will last forever, necessarily, but it's a very efficient technique. Call me old-fashioned, but I don't see it being supplanted by voice-transcription or gestures or whatever for a very long time.

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Agreed. I'm predicting more along the lines of really good on-screen keyboards, or ThinkGeek's laser keyboard (http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/keyboards-mice/8193/), or something entirely new but still in that vein. In other words, keeping what works but evolving past the big physical slab of plastic.

> Call me old-fashioned, but I don't see it being supplanted by voice-transcription or gestures or whatever for a very long time.

Well, we can type way faster than we can talk, so even if voice transcription were perfected, it would still be impractical.

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