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The Washington Post[^]:
Swipe, swipe, pinch-zoom. Fifth-grader Josephine Nguyen is researching the definition of an adverb on her iPad and her fingers are flying across the screen. Her 20 classmates are hunched over their own tablets doing the same. Conspicuously absent from this modern scene of high-tech learning: a mouse.

"Point and click" seems so quaint now.

Terrence Dorsey wrote:
"Point and click" seems so quaint now.

Samuel Colt[^] would beg to differ.

Less flippantly, until they figure out how to make a touchpad/fondleslab that doesn't pain every knuckle of the finger I'm using to smear grease over it in an hour or so I don't care.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

They already have. It's called a stylus.
Also, as speech and voice recognition mature and merge you will that emerge as the dominant input technology.
Until we get a new toy to play with....

m.bergman

For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron

I am not a chatbot

Michael Bergman wrote:
They already have. It's called a stylus.

A single touch stylus is only capable of replicating a fraction of what multi-touch obsessed fondleslab UI designers think is cool.

Michael Bergman wrote:
Also, as speech and voice recognition mature and merge you will that emerge as the dominant input technology.

I hope not. The one good thing about small fondleslabs is that they've silenced almost all of the @#$)(*&#@'s who were constantly shouting into their phones a decade ago. Siri alone was sufficient reason to damn jobs into the deepest circle of hell. </soapbox>

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt