you won't be touching the monitor on your pc, you will be touching either a clear glass sheet that nags in front of your display, or is your display, or you will just gesture in the air and a "digitizing camera" will interperate what you are doing for the computer. Think Project Natal, now think what you could do with that technology if it cost 10x as much as the crappy version on the Xbox 360... computers are rapidly progressing to the level of "minority report" similar systems have already been constructed, currently only consumer cost is preventing it from being marketed main stream (and without the "power glove", didn't wear a glove in the movie?).
remember microsofts table top computer? or the sphere computer? R&D and every major tech company is already working on mouse free computing, it is just a matter of getting to a reasonable cost for computers, and making it simple to use. watch the weather on MSNBC (I know, sorry it is another M$ product, but you don't tend to see apple doing anything, except putting macbooks in movies) and watch the news, the news and the weather people are using multiple GIANT touch enabled screens that are apparently just as sensitive as anything that apple has made. (where is this in the consumer mobile world, I don't know, probably a patent issue). just watch them for a while as they "pull up" the screens they are talking about, or fling them off the display to close them, I was very impressed the first time I saw it. And yes I am sure there is a guy on the side with an additional attached display to the same computer, and he is setting all of it up with a mouse... pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
My main point is, the world HAS gone mouse free, we just can't afford it yet! so they are not marketing it or releasing the products to major retailers.
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