“Keyboards are rare, although they still exist. Most interaction with computing is through gestures using hands, fingers, and facial expressions and through two-way natural-language spoken communication. [By 2019.]”

Ray KurzweilThought Leader

Inventor, futurist and author of The Age of Spiritual Machines

Keyboards remained ubiquitous in 2019 — roughly a billion active desktops, laptops and detachable-keyboard devices, plus on-screen keyboards on every smartphone. Touch and voice grew, but gesture and facial-expression interfaces did not displace typing.