Multi-touch is amazingly cool, life is getting more and more psychedelic. I was always bummed to miss out on the artistic time of the sixties, but I always knew that what they had in imagination, my generation, because of that start, would have in reality.

Why choose a mouse over multi-touch. I can see working in Adobe using both, and I believe it will be so. Maybe you would use your hand to stretch an image then go back to your mouse or tablet. Who knows how much you may want to directly work with it. Laptops could be 2 surfaces of screens, one where the keyboard resides will hold a virtual keyboard that can change configuration with the application used. Much like the image above for music software, having virtual sliders. You never know, you may, in the end, get a virtual mouse instead.

But for now, yeah, I see walls being made of the multi-touch screen, the new chalk board for schools, the new projector for corporate and military.

And for lifestyle uses, as flat screens get thinner, bigger and cheaper, it will dominate eventually. You will have a wall(s) in your home that can pretend to be an ordinary wall with a painting on it, then turning into a full wall TV, to being a photo album, then screensaving into a giant lava lamp! We are living in the dreams come true era!