In a recent interview, Bill Gates was asked what could be the next big thing in hardware and software. His reply was that it would be all about how humans interact with computers and other digital devices. Frankly, I am not sure what kind of interface that I want in my next computer or phone. I hate using the keypad on your laptop and use a mouse and wireless keyboard from third parties instead. The friendlier the device the happier I am. My cell phone is the old type, so if you send me a text message, I did not expect much of an answer.
As old time computer users know, before the graphical user interface and became the norm before the instructions in command line on a video screen, the entry team consisted of files batch that feeds the computer using the key punch cards or paper tape. Departure from the team came in the giant form punched sheets. Then came the units of video playback with keyboards that provides operators of equipment with a screen that allowed them to read the commands that are written on your computer and see the results on the screen. Thus, the command line became the standard interface of the team in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s.
Graphical user interfaces emerged in the early 1980s and made computers easy to use by normal people. This interface has been the norm since that time. Apple MacIntosh, which debuted at the end of the ' 80s was the first computer produced in mass for the graphical user interface. Windows PC followed soon after. The mouse was really developed in 1968 at the Stanford Research Institute by Douglas Englebart. He also showed Hypertext and shared the collaboration of the screen at an event in San Francisco this year.
Current computers use graphical interfaces, mice and touch screen technologies. Although these technologies have existed for 20 years or more, have been well adjusted to make computing and web browsing pretty easy for most of neophyte users perform their tasks. New smart phones have taken this touch screen technology to the next level and made it a ubiquitous technology that can be done from almost anywhere in the world using the communications satellite and wi-fi. The touch screen really debuted in 1983 in a team of 150 HP.
So what the future holds for the computer interface and adapt more easily to life with computing devices as these interfaces become more sophisticated and almost human? Gesture detection will be one of the interfaces. Eye movement already exists for the handicapped of multiplication. In the future you will find sample projected in the air in front of you that will allow use spatial positioning wands or even his own hands to communicate with various digital devices.
The Wii already incorporates some basic versions of activation through the movement. Would it not be great if when the team acted inappropriately is could take the old greeting a finger? How would you respond? How many times have you already reacted to the behavior of the team doing that? It could be our revenge for the blue screen of death. The iPhone already has some applications that take advantage of this type of motion detection.
Force feedback is another component of emerging interface to be used with touch screens in the future. Surgical training devices are adopting this interface to help surgeons to be more expert in complex procedures without having to practice on humans. Some game systems are experiencing with this interface and cellular telephone companies are investigating the possibilities of this type of interface as well.
Speaking of doors of interfaces verbal when asked about the future of computing. I remember a movie of Star Trek back in the 1980s in which Scotty was trying to use a team of American and first tried to talk to the team. He soon realized that the team does not understand verbal commands, and would have that write them if wanted the team to do what I wanted to do. And we cannot forget the 2001:a of the film Odyssey in space where the HAL 9000 computer tried to take control of the space station and in a last ditch effort uttered the famous phrase, "do not turn off me Dave".
Voice recognition has existed since the 1970s, but has not taken off of really until that began the new millennium. It is not that we are not talking about with our computers, it is not just that they don't listen. With advances in speech recognition this is going to change radically. The voice interface will probably be common in the next 5 to 10 years.
Imagine sitting in your Office or cubicle, while all his companions of Office are talking to their computers simultaneously. Perhaps we should keep us our keyboards and mice for a while. The Office could get quite noisy. It sounds like an opportunity of business for Bose, is not true? It becomes whatever the pop-up interface standard, I am sure that we still have much to complain.
Not be surprised if you find computers that can communicate directly with the brain in the next 20 years or less. Medical research has already nervous connecting devices with Bionic prosthesis operating tips simply by the amputee thinking about the transfer of that limb. Monitoring perception could be next. I'm not sure that wishes the team to know what I mean. You?
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