Because Minority Report and Star Trek are clearly where tech is going. Riiight.
Touch will remain the province of handhelds, and those desktop users who only email, skype, and facebook (i.e. people who are better off with an idevice anyway). The keyboard isn't going to go away for a good long time unless you can make a touchscreen that can survive my >60 WPM hammering all day long. And it needs to be lying flat on a surface of course, because nobody is going to type faster than a snail if they have to hold their hands and arms up to touch a vertical screen for more than a few minutes.
Mice aren't going away either unless a better replacement is found, and touch at the moment is not it. I've used styluses before and while good for some things they're definitely not mice.
I was thinking about Star Trek and such...
Yes, it may be true that that's not where technology is going....but I doubt that.
Intel has been hiring sci-fi writers to think up ideas for technology that they can build. Who know where technology is going better than the science fiction genre!
Speaking of sci-fi, the first use of a slim, touch tablet in a sci-fi movie was I believe Space Odyssey: 2001. That movie was done in the 60s and about 40 years later, a couple years after 2001, Microsoft shows off a somewhat slim, touch tablet running xp.
Then there's Star Trek, where they use tablets by the way. In Star Trek, they always talk to the computer and the computer answers back flawlessly. Odd, because today, we have Microsoft TellMe, siri, and android's iris. They don't work flawlessly, but they work with the same concept of voice control.
Then there is the Minority Report. The technology in that movie isn't hugely different, since they use touch screens, but what is different is the use of hand gesturing. Interesting, since today, we have the Kinect that is used on the Xbox 360 to navigate through the Dashboard and within games and soon IE9. Not will it be only for Xbox, it will be coming soon to the consumer and will work with Windows 8.
I don't know, Star Trek and Minority Report do seem to know where technology is going........