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The QWERTY keyboard was laid out to reduce jamming of mechanical typewriters. I use the Dvorak layout, although it may not matter as much as I'd hoped. ABCDEF might be the most sensible standard for new learners. Steve Roberts tried an 8 key chord keyboard without finding great gains in speed, but he did it for convenience, as a handlebar accessory. Training may be the key to faster typing on such layouts; the potential seems to be there.
The real beauty of chord systems is that they don't need a desk. They could allow one to type just by gripping a tablet, or a pair of mice. An easy facility with such interfaces could be a boon to any mobile design, eliminating fumbling and allowing one-hand operation.
On a standard keyboard, the thumbs are severely underutilized, and the frequent alternations of the right hand to the mouse or other keys could surely be better integrated.
Bob Stuart

1) The wristwatch died with the cell phone. It won't be improved, because it is obsolete. Stuff it with enough stuff, and it becomes a strap on TV or cell phone, NOT a wristwatch with toys.

2) QWERTY - Will likely stay around, just because it is what we are all taught to use. ABCDEFG isn't based on any specific order (other than dead alphbets - Greek to Roman being the last major shift). We chould just as easily change the alphbet song and the order of our files (particularly with the obsolescence of paper records). A single row chord keyboard is nice, and far more practicle an interface moving into the future, but is harder to learn (you can't print combinations on a chorded bar). I could see the chord being put into systems and the ciriculum of schools once hand free interfaces become common, making the off hand useful, since you would want to operate a mouse OR chord key with your off hand.

3) Desktop interface - other than moving off screen to mobile projection and hands free interface, I think the basic ideas of files, draging, and the like were Minority Report acutrate and will not change that much. (I'm sure my grandkids will be using Window 85 someday).

4) Thermos - I'm not sure that eventually chemical or electrical heating and cooling won't be economical in a thermos. One where you set the temp of the contents, and that temp was held. The only thing that really sets it back now is the potential for pressure build-up in a spill proof (read "air tight") container being heated.

5) Turntable? Really? Digital will replace organic sound recording for all by a few "purist." The only reason they are still used is scratching and nostalgia.

6) Incandescent. Again, may not be improved, but already obsolete.

incandescent is replaced by led
and led is replaced by oled.

@oakspar77777

The wristwatch is hardly dead. There is, I predict, far more variety of watches available than cel phones. I myself own 6, and I know a number of other watch 'aficionados'.

Unlike a cel phone a good watch will NOT kill brain cells, which is exactly what's happening with all of these cel phone addicts I see, such as those morons who just have to check their phones every five minutes while at the movie theater. Or the dimwits who talk LOUDER when entering an elevator, 'thinking' that will solve the reception problems.

I don't see the wristwatch totally going away, it will always be around, even if not exactly in what we would accept as attractive packaging. As Oakspar said, it may become essentially something else, like the mini receiver tuned to an atomic clock giving the accuracy to integrate a mini computer, which in turn gives rise to potentially endless specialty devices that we can use to measure and calibrate our worlds. Just like many of the things in our era, there will come a time when people can't imagine their wristwatch only telling time. I prefer to live in today and tomorrow, so I have my nice gold watch, and I like the most functional I can get for whatever I'm doing at that time in my work watch. When I worked at a refinery, a wristwatch that could read oxygen levels vs explosive gases would have been great. I can see a use for a wristwatch that nulls static. But it should always be a watch, in my opinion. Whatever newfangled gadget they throw in.