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#10
Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
It will require at least one generation that grows up using touch screen input methods that effectively are just as efficient as the full-qwerty keyboard.

Right now such a thing is pretty limited. Swype is almost there (I'm guessing based on what I've seen/heard/read - I have only touched swype a couple of times and I have no idea how to use it right) - but it still requires looking at the screen. 8pen/qwop -type input methods have much higher potential in the very long term... Not sure when/how that will catch on though, and it's likely that by then more technology improvements will utterly oust that approach out in favor of something even better - I.E. electrotactile screens and the like, which, if perfected, would probably be equal to good qwerty keyboards. *Shrug*
IMHO, both of them sucks big time. And really sad thing is that both of them are, in a way, gestures. So why inventing hot water again. Someone should simply reintroduce graffiti and that's it.