alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) (01/04/90)
jsloan@handies.ucar.edu (John Sloan,8292,X1243,ML44E) writes: >From article <752@arc.UUCP>, by steve@arc.UUCP (Steve Savitzky): >> In article <Jan.3.01.24.55.1990.2689@klaatu.rutgers.edu> josh@klaatu.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall) writes: >>>The keyboard will go the way of the card reader. Voice-and-pointer >>>will be standard; > : >> I just have to respond to this. WRONG. > : >> o Pocket computers will generally use handwriting recognition on their >> touch-sensitive screens, rather than voice inputs. >Similar to the pocket computers portrayed in _The Mote in God's Eye_, >the SF novel by Niven and Pournelle. The computers were apparently >about the size of a pocket calculator with their entire front surface >covered with a touch sensitive LCD-like display screen. Well, first mentioned earlier for the CoDominium period in _Spaceship for the King_. Me? I predict we'll have a FORTRAN 8X standard by the Year 2000, followed by some actual compilers with two decades. Alex