Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!dahlia!sagibson
From: sagibson@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Slime)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Alternative Keyboards
Keywords: keyboards alternate
Message-ID: <11350@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 89 21:34:06 GMT
References: <400012@hpdsla.HP.COM> <8901251606.AA16241@pinocchio.UUCP>
Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu
Reply-To: sagibson@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Slime)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
Lines: 15

I find that the problem with current keyboards is that you still
have to remember how to spell. Wouldn't it be much more natural
to use a keyboard wwith phonemes and have the computer translate
the input into real (and correctly spelled) words?

Such a device must already exist. Dictating machines? Do they
have less or more keys?

As for displays, Dynabook type. Obviously.  Fast.
With lots of memory. No disk. Minimum of mechanical parts.

Some type of touch pad (the screen?) instead of a mouse or trackball.
But that's probably religious.

** Simon