These days I teach touch-typing (among an assortment of more
intellectual business topics, I must hastily add!) and I use what are
essentially Timothy Collison's arguments to respond to students'
objections.

When I learned to touch-type, a friend of mine said I was crazy. Why
would I bother, when in a few years' time we'd be able to speak to our
computers...

That was in 1990.

Regards
Michael Barry

PS Hello, Hyphen!

On 3/05/2014 8:44 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
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> On Fri, 5/2/14, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:
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>   Subject: Re: [TML] On the testing bandwagon...
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>   Date: Friday, May 2, 2014, 2:44 PM
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>   I recall when it was so highly touted that 'qwerty'
>   was seen as a soon-to-be forgotten relic.
>
>   I
>   type Dvorak and LOVE it but I don't expect it to ever
>   take over. Anyone can use it on any computer without even
>   having to pay. It makes typing feel like you have psychic
>   powers. I would expect typing to die out within 20 years for
>   most people as voice tech becomes much better. I am sure
>   that some will continue with typing but only the pros of
>   certain fields.
>
>   I'm not convinced.
>   Even if voice tech were perfect now
>   I simply *can't* use it for writing on the bus; taking
>   notes in meetings, conferences or sermons; or even typing in
>   bed like now with wife trying to read beside me.  And I
>   hardly feel like a pro at anything.
>
>   How far are we from
>   subvocalisation or the 'hush hood' I vaguely recall
>   from SF of days gone by (maybe Asimov or
>   Heinlein)?
>   tc
>