anyway, old ass article i've been saving where b gates says that touch screen tech could be the end of the mouse...
it's ironic that this comes on the heels of the great success of apple w/ the iphone (although i'll admit that i have a winblows touch phone which i grudgingly like). if anyone wonders if this is off-base or not, i'd point back to apple (note: i'm sayin billy is just jumpin on the bandwagon) being completely on-point w/ halting shipments of 3.5 floppy drives. they mb timed perfectly or perhaps even invested and spurned the growth of the USB jump drive industry...
anyway, the reason i'm posting the link is b/c losing the mouse and moving to touch as an interface brings about some interesting possibilities w/ security in the auth space... we're all so used to dealing with passwords, but brining tactile into the space allows for a lot of new ideas... hand positioning, touch timings, geometric passkeys, timing based auth (via touch; but this could be done w/ keyboards too)... anywho, despite coming from MS, i see this possible evolution as being full of interesting possibilities....
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