Bill Gates insists on the death of keyboards

Bill Gates proved that he is a great businessman. But in the predictions of the future, he was repeatedly mistaken. For example, in 2004, Gates said with confidence that within two years we will completely get rid of spam. However, four years have passed, and the amount of garbage in the mail has only increased.

Prior to that, Gates made a number of incorrect predictions, which became the reason for ridicule from the enemies. Especially often mention the phrase that 640 kilobytes of RAM is enough to solve any problems on the computer. His speech recognition predictions are generally a separate song that accompanies Bill Gates for at least a decade.

Since 1997, again and again, Bill Gates repeats that the main interface on computers of the future will be a voice interface with speech recognition ( in 1997, he took the keyboards for ten years ). Although there has not been much progress in this area, Bill Gates has not changed his point of view for many years, and recently he voiced it again . This time, he also added touchscreens to speech recognition.

Speaking to students at Carnegie Mellon University, the founder of Microsoft said that in five years more search queries from speech recognition devices would be sent to search engines on the Internet than from keyboard devices.
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via Techdirt