KNOWLEDGE SHALL INCREASE:In touch with the digital age

LONDON,England-It has been an indispensable fixture of computing for as long as most people can remember.But sentences beginning with the words "click on"and"click and drag"may not be part of future office parlance as the humble computer mouse comes under threat from new touch-screen technology which is being rolled out by the major players in the computer industry.It promises to be the biggest change to personal computing in a quarter of a century.Although touch-screen has long permeated the more mundane aspects of modern life such as ticket machines and tills,and provided interactive novelties in the guise of museum guides and quiz machines,applying this technology to the PC is a far more complex task.The mouse is a tough act to follow.First conceived by Dr Douglas Engelbart and aided by Bill English,who would later design the first"ball mouse",at the Stanford Research Institute in 1965,the mouse was first used commercially by Xerox in their "Star Workstation" computer made in 1981.Apple was granted a license to use the mouse on its "Lisa"model shortly after,but it was only when it was incorporated into the iconic Apple Mackintosh in 1984 that the mouse gradually took off commercially.Spool forward 23 years and its difficult to imagine computer life without the mouse guiding the majority of computer functions,but that's exactly what's on offer in 2007:a landmark year in personal computing....
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