It's the End! of the Keyboard ...
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The next CEO genius tries his hand at predicting future trends in computing. Next on the chopping block ... The keyboard.
'The end of the keyboard is near': Christian Klein predicts voice translation will be the next workplace advantage
The English engineer, Henry Mill, submitted the first-ever patent for a "machine transcribing letters" in 1714. It never actually went into production, but it was a forerunner of the typewriter and then the electronic keyboard: 312 years later, Christian Klein, CEO of software giant SAP, is noting the end of an era.
It had a good run. But now it's time to go behind the shed and move to the farm up north.
"The end of the keyboard is near," he tells me. "When you encounter voice recognition from many of these large language models, [it] is super strong. Now we have to do some work to translate voice into business language and business data."
The future will be, for sure, that you are not typing any data information into an SAP system. You can instead ask certain analytical questions with your voice."
That will be the most annoying office change since the "open office" or the "paper free office". If you thought it was annoying when people just spoke on the their phones imagine the wonders of them engaging in data input or any kind of data alterations, or query or manipulation or just anything really ...
But SAP's prediction that "data-inputting" via typing will end in the next two to three years at the firm has significance well beyond the death of QWERTY.
Gone in two or three years? Suuuure.
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