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The touchscreen will obsolete the keyboard/mouse combination except for entering or editing large amounts of text within ten years. (Obsolete means something like “cross the 50 percent mark” and “displays strong growth while keyboard/mouse devices collapse”.) The iPad seems to show the way: ultra portable with a (probably wireless) keyboard attachment for when you really need to type.

That would be a prediction I would be comfortable with.



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