On November 7 next, the computer industry will unveil its next great technological breakthrough. It's called handwriting. Apparently you take a small, pointed stick-like object, called a stylus (from 'style', which Chambers defines as 'a pointed instrument for writing on wax tablets') and make squiggle-like movements with it on a screen (called a 'tablet' - 'a slab or stiff sheet for making notes on'). These squiggles are then pondered by a powerful computer which concludes, after much calculation, that they constitute the message 'Tge big brownn fqx jumpz over tge lasy doge' and prints same on the aforementioned screen.
The above quote courtesy of http://www.activewin.com/awin/default.asp. Unfourtanatly it's all too right. Hand-writing recognition still isn't nearly good enough for mission critical apps. This and speech recognition are two of the most important things that need to be worked on before we move towards the next generation of UI's and personal computers.
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