Analyst Predicts Computer Mouse Obsolete in Five Years
As you may have noticed, we're not ones to put much stock in analysts' predictions, especially when they involve the demise of something as entrenched as the mouse in as little as five years. Still, that's the limb Gartner analyst Steve Prentice has walked out on, sort of. While he first qualifies things a bit by saying that the mouse "works fine in the desktop environment but for home entertainment or working on a notebook it's over," he later seems to get considerably more definitive in stating that "the idea of a keyboard with a mouse as a control interface is the paradigm that I am talking about breaking down" (the keyboard, he says, is here to stay).
In place of the mouse, Prentice sees things like facial recognition systems, multi-touch, and even devices like OCZ's mind-reading Neural Interface Actuator taking over. Now, if you'll excuse us, we're going to start practicing thinking really hard so we don't get tripped up during the transition. [Via TrustedReviews]
Filed under: Computers, Back to School Guide 2008
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
dwr50 @ Jul 22nd 2008 12:31PM
Analysts say a lot of things... most of them wrong.
anna @ Jul 27th 2008 12:00AM
It's not ergonomically feasible for me to work 12 hours a day at my PC without a mouse. I'm keeping mine! : )
Amarjit Singh at Durban @ Jul 28th 2008 1:49PM
I dont think the anything else can take place of the desktop mouse. i have a laptop but still i prefer to use mouse...and have seen MOST of ppl doing same...so i think they need to rethink abt this ...may be not in the next 15 years at least...or until they develop something that clicks when u think or blink may be ;)