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Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction

Posted by timothy on from the how-much-would-you-like-to-bet dept.

slatterz writes "The computer mouse is set to die out in the next five years and will be usurped by touch screens and facial recognition, analysts believe. Steven Prentice, vice president and Gartner Fellow, told the BBC that devices such as Nintendo's MotionPlus for the Wii and Apple's iPhone point the way to the future, offering greater accuracy in motion detection."

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  1. The end of one-handed surfing? by hedronist · · Score: 5, Funny

    But ... but ... I have a relationship with my mouse! It's one of the two things I have my hand on all day long. Oh, behave! I meant my keyboard.

    Somewhat more seriously, do you really want your screen to have ... stuff all over it? Personally, I don't let anyone touch my screen. Or imagine an office with everyone yelling at their computer, "No, God damn it! The other left!"

  2. Another GUI intervention lies just ahead by antek9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next up: the combination of both those future bound GUI technologies, The WiiPhone (TM). It doesn't have any screen at all, you just throw it at whoever you want to talk to! Now if all things were that simple...

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  3. Re:analysts...or just bored idiots? by afidel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually it's Gartner so your best bet is to buy stock in Logitech as it's more likely that there will be a great surge in demand for mice in the next 5 years =)

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  4. Re:Mice are not going anywhere. by Clay+Pigeon+-TPF-VS- · · Score: 5, Funny

    I haven't had mod points since... ...2003, but if I had some now they would be yours.

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  5. Analysts headed for extinction by Kohath · · Score: 5, Funny

    The profession of "analyst" is set to die out in the next 5 years. The use of analysts to predict the future based on unsupportable extrapolation of early technology trends will start to decline in 2008 and the profession will be totally gone by 2014. These analyst predictions will be replaced with predictions from other sources such as Ouija boards, re-purposed water witches, and randomly clicking on a document with a computer mouse and forming a sentence with the words.

    Of course, the best way to tell the future is to wait until it becomes the present and then watch what happens. News sources once used that method to report news, but it fell out of favor due to narcissism and delusions of grandeur among journalists. Journalists found that the couldn't always control events that happened or the facts reported. Predictions don't have this limitation because the predicted events are fictional at the time the story is written.

  6. Re:In theory, I'll agree. by MightyYar · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know what a PS/2 port is, and my father-in-law showed up with one of these so-called "floppy" disks once so I know what that is...

    But just what the heck is a parallel port? :)

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