Bill Gates on the Future

Gates talks up voice recognition

In this article, Microsoft's Grand Wizard predicts that the computer keyboard will give way to speech recognition software, textbooks will be ditched for electronic multimedia tablets and TV will converge completely with the internet in the next few years.

Looking at how today's youth are using computers (even my students - inner city youth with limited resources) I really doubt it. The keyboard is not just for typing documents, it's for IM, for making beats, for video editing, and so much more. If anything, the mouse is more of a hassle than the keyboard.