“People will increasingly interact with computers using speech or touch screens rather than keyboards”. That’s according to Bill Gates who blurted out this interesting piece of tech news in one of his recent talks. In five years, Microsoft expects more Internet searches to be done through speech than through typing on a keyboard.

“It’s one of the big bets we’re making,” he said during the final stop of a farewell
tour before he withdraws from the company’s daily operations in July.

Wow, that is very good news. I magine using a voice activated computer instead of tapping endlessly on those plastic keys! And, it is a especially welcome development for me who isn’t that adept with the keyboard, as I know many of you are. In fact, I practically use three to four fingers only in typing this blog! He he.