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This is an entirely ridiculuous concept of the future of computing. It envisons the computer human interface becoming less powerful with time. To some extent that was inevitable with the first generation of computing as it was neccessary to entice adults into using computers. But if anyone seriously believes that computers, which will be used for everything, are going to rely on clumsy touch interfaces to get real work done, they're thinking of the present not the future.
In fact I predict that the whole concept of pointing based interfaces will become increasingly obsolete, having to physically mve objects, like a mouse or a hand to interface with tiny targets on a screen is simply too inefficient. The future lies in talking to computers with language not gestures. In the near future that language will still be a computer language and the interface will still be the keyboard, eventually the language will become natural language and the interface will become voice.
That's not too say that touchscreens wont be useful for specialized (and limited) applications, but that's about it...
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