QWERTY keyboards have been around for over a century, but a new era in tech needs a new kind of input. WSJ’s David Pierce tries out the keyboards of the future. Photo/Video: James Pace-Cornsilk for The Wall Street JournalSince those early days of the computer revolution, in university classrooms and California garages, the look of our machines has been changing endlessly. That keyboard—nicknamed QWERTY for its first six keys—is the unkillable cockroach of the tech industry. It’s not that QWERTY is perfect—in fact, one popular (but probably apocryphal) story says it was designed specifically to slow typists...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 30, 2018 12:56 UTC