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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 5032176" data-attributes="member: 40359">I'm really excited about the possibilities of this, but I agree with you entirely on the current offerings. It's a long way from being practical, but it's a start. Unfortunately the design behind the Microsoft Surface isn't set up to scale down in thickness well. But there's plenty of other multi-touch technologies that can scale in thickness, and I'm sure even more waiting to be invented that can potentially shrink that down to be placed anywhere. Actually Apple currently has patents (and possible R&D products being tested) for tactile feedback on touch screens. Once that gets practical, you'll improve keyboard use as well as open up a lot of other possibilities - like braille iPhones.But I assume that within our lifetimes standard mouse & keyboard interfaces and freestanding computer boxes and screens will be archaic. Computing will be built into other products and/or become so miniature that they might as well be built in. Voice recognition and touch interfaces will replace inferior keyboards and mice. Heck, in the radiology office I work at, our doctors spend the entire day on the computer reading exams - and never touch their keyboard. All they ever use is a fingerprint login and a speech mic with built in trackball (and they'll be happier when we get rid of the little bit of trackball use).</blockquote>