The PC of the Future Looks Just Like the iPhone
If you accept the inevitability of the next-generation interface — the UI with advanced versions of iPhone's multitouch, gestures, physics, 3-D and diminished role of symbolic representation (icons) — then all the rest follows. Giant screens you touch will have to be pivoted at an angle because vertical or horizontal use will be awkward. Mice will vanish because you'll touch on-screen objects directly. The screen will provide an incentive to get rid of the keyboard. The end result will look and work like a GIANT iPHONE OR iPOD TOUCH.
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Take your arms and hold them slightly extended in front of your chest for five minutes. It will soon become clear to you why the PC of the future will not look just like an iPhone.
While there may be a few special applications (Military, CSI Miami, Public Kiosks) where a jumbo iPhone-like display might have it's advantages, it will never be the PC of the future.
I have used a Wacom Cintiq (an LCD screen that you can draw on with a stylus) for a few years and I am surprised how little I actually use it. The reason is that it requires too much physical effort to use it as compared to a mouse.
I would compare a touch screen to using voice commands to control your computer. It sounds like a cool idea until you actually try it for a few hours/days. Then when you are working late at 2:00 AM you realize that it more effort to talk to a computer than using your keyboard and mouse.
The picture at the top is from Jeff Han's demonstration at TED 2 years ago. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65
Large touch interfaces like this and Surface have a place, but it isn't in typed communication.
Group interaction, visual information processing, and public information kiosks will benefit; but it won't replace everything.
I would be interested in the brain computer interface, though.
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