Gates’ long list — Natural Interfaces

In a News.com article, Gates is still reported to be addressing challenging issues at Microsoft.  And one of his major interest seems to be in — natural interfaces.

“Big screens, touch, ink, speech, that’s something that I think, along with cloud computing, is the next big change in how we think about software,” Gates told CNET News.com on Tuesday.

He further adds:

“All these things about natural interface are coming to the fore, and they are probably the thing that’s most underestimated right now about the digital revolution,” Gates said.

I like this.  The only bad thing is that this has not received as much attention even from Microsoft as it deserves.  I think much more attention and research needs to go in this area.

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