I just can't picture a world without a keyboard (unless there is a direct connection to our brain). People talk about replacing keyboards with voice recognition, and that will not work as much as some pundits would have you believe. If you work at a job where you have to be at a computer all day, you will eventually lose your voice. You will get tired of talking to the computer very quickly. This is apparent if you are writing several documents. The task of opening many different programs using your voice will eventually become very exhausting. Also, keyboards can provide privacy when you need it. For instance, if you are at your cubicle "talking" an email, you might not want everyone to hear what you are saying. For the last example, I will talk about programming. How the hell can you talk a program? Trying talking to a computer and build a program with 7,000 lines of code, and you will get my drift. Saying one simple statement such as if (((A > B) || (C > B)) && (D == 0)){ A = (B * 5.054) / PI; LPA = }
Trying to say this to a computer is a chore in itself. Now try saying a 5000 line program to a computer, and then go through the tedious process of debugging, and you will see why voice will not take over. Of course, voice will be extremely important in the future, and MANY things will use it, but it will be no means take over the world.
Believe me. There is never enough processing power in the world. My computer is a PIII450 with 256MB RAM. My computer runs Unreal Tournament at well over 30 FPS, at 1200x1080 rez, and in 32 bit color depth, and great. However, my Windows apps STILL slowdown. Computing is coming at a point in which you want supercomputing power at your desktop. Many people are now doing simulations on their desktops, and they need all the processing power they can get. Also, there are people like me everywhere who think that a computer can never be powerful enough. No matter what comes out, we want more power, and we want to show off our power to other people.
They can roll out their 1.1GHz at any time, but would it be wise? Doing so would not be good from a business standpoint. First, the chip will cost a lot of money. Most people don't even have chips above PII400. And as for the new 800s and 850 chips, only the extreme market who really needs them are buying, and that is a small number of people. They will release the 1.1G chip when the higher chips start saturating the market.
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I just can't picture a world without a keyboard (unless there is a direct connection to our brain). People talk about replacing keyboards with voice recognition, and that will not work as much as some pundits would have you believe. If you work at a job where you have to be at a computer all day, you will eventually lose your voice. You will get tired of talking to the computer very quickly. This is apparent if you are writing several documents. The task of opening many different programs using your voice will eventually become very exhausting. Also, keyboards can provide privacy when you need it. For instance, if you are at your cubicle "talking" an email, you might not want everyone to hear what you are saying.
For the last example, I will talk about programming. How the hell can you talk a program? Trying talking to a computer and build a program with 7,000 lines of code, and you will get my drift. Saying one simple statement such as
if (((A > B) || (C > B)) && (D == 0)){
A = (B * 5.054) / PI;
LPA =
}
Trying to say this to a computer is a chore in itself. Now try saying a 5000 line program to a computer, and then go through the tedious process of debugging, and you will see why voice will not take over. Of course, voice will be extremely important in the future, and MANY things will use it, but it will be no means take over the world.
Believe me. There is never enough processing power in the world. My computer is a PIII450 with 256MB RAM. My computer runs Unreal Tournament at well over 30 FPS, at 1200x1080 rez, and in 32 bit color depth, and great. However, my Windows apps STILL slowdown. Computing is coming at a point in which you want supercomputing power at your desktop. Many people are now doing simulations on their desktops, and they need all the processing power they can get. Also, there are people like me everywhere who think that a computer can never be powerful enough. No matter what comes out, we want more power, and we want to show off our power to other people.
They can roll out their 1.1GHz at any time, but would it be wise? Doing so would not be good from a business standpoint. First, the chip will cost a lot of money. Most people don't even have chips above PII400. And as for the new 800s and 850 chips, only the extreme market who really needs them are buying, and that is a small number of people. They will release the 1.1G chip when the higher chips start saturating the market.