I think at some point, we must realize that no matter how hard we rail against it, the keyboard will remain king on the desktop. Regardless of what kind of kind of cool touch screen options become available or even popular for that matter. At the end of the day, users all find themselves reaching for the all familiar keyboard.

PC gamers expect it, power users demand it and casual users of both the PC and yes, even the Mac, are simply so used to the keyboard’s familiarity that expecting even a slow migration to a touch screen on anything other than mobile devices is unlikely at best.

Perhaps it is some 21st century expectation that has us so bent on see touch screens becoming part of the technology world, I really could not say for sure. But one thing is for sure, short of bulletproof speech recognition software bundled with retraining our brains how we share thoughts with a computer, seeing touch screens becoming anything in the home of the casual user may in fact be the wishful thinking of dreamers.