Hopefully by the time the folks who are completely dependent on computers because they grew up with them are susceptible to essential tremor due to age, we will have moved well beyond mice. 2D GUIs, mice, and keyboard are so 1970's. You'd think that we would have moved to the next step by now, but only a few are true visionaries when it comes to computers and the HMI--and Bill Gates's Windows is not a part of this visionary future. Alan Kay, who could be credited, at least in part, with inventing the whole GUI approach to computing, is still active in developing future methodologies.
They might converge on a point of attraction that is not the highest possible.
Mutation helps with convergence issues.
Sure the only way is to exhaustively search the "chromosome" space for every possibile combination, and computers are good at brute force!
Um, I don't even know how many parameters are involved to be adjusted, but it does not take that many to make exhaustive search useless, even for a computer.
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Hopefully by the time the folks who are completely dependent on computers because they grew up with them are susceptible to essential tremor due to age, we will have moved well beyond mice. 2D GUIs, mice, and keyboard are so 1970's. You'd think that we would have moved to the next step by now, but only a few are true visionaries when it comes to computers and the HMI--and Bill Gates's Windows is not a part of this visionary future. Alan Kay, who could be credited, at least in part, with inventing the whole GUI approach to computing, is still active in developing future methodologies.
Sure, an advanced civilization might have every chance of escaping through a wormhole, but what does that have to do with human civilization?
They might converge on a point of attraction that is not the highest possible.
Mutation helps with convergence issues.
Sure the only way is to exhaustively search the "chromosome" space for every possibile combination, and computers are good at brute force!
Um, I don't even know how many parameters are involved to be adjusted, but it does not take that many to make exhaustive search useless, even for a computer.