An engineer Cortana says that the QWERTY keyboard is obsolete

Microsoft is one of the companies that invest in digital assistants, with Cortana who frequently get updates with new features and support for other languages. It is therefore not surprising that the company believes that PDAs are actually the future of technology and older systems, such as the QWERTY keyboard, will soon disappear because they are already obsolete.
DaveCoplin, one of the engineers involved in the project Cortana, told EveningStandard that new technologies such as voice recognition and gesture will make the traditional keyboard that we know a discontinued product and sooner or later, everyone the 'abandon. "We have these amazing computers we use mainly as we are still Victorians. The Qwerty keyboard is an excellent example of an old design being advanced to the modern day. We have not really evolved. We still use this sub-optimal design ", he has said. "We now consider technologies such as voice and gesture recognition and face tracking can make redundant the keyboard," continued Dave in his announcement. "We believe that computers in a not too distant future will be able to understand all these things and infer my intention in my name, meaning and the goal I am trying to do. "

In addition, Coplin explained that the robots, which are already a technology that Microsoft is working on, will become a more important part of our life because they can accelerate certain activities and help perform tasks that everyone had to manually run before . Search engines will soon know everything about us, he said, as a good thing, and will be able to act on our behalf, as a human being without any user intervention. While robots and PDAs are indeed improving these days, it's hard to believe that the keyboard will disappear anytime soon, especially because it continues to be the primary input method for many people.