AI RESEARCH
The Instrumental Dissolution of Typing: Why AI Challenges the Keyboard Era in Knowledge Work
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2604.17023v1 Announce Type: cross For four decades, the QWERTY keyboard organized white-collar knowledge work. Typing's dominance was instrumental, not cognitively necessary. As multimodal AI achieves human-parity understanding of speech and gesture, this necessity dissolves. We