Touch interfaces and e-readers are among the inventions some believe Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab, talked about in 1984. But the first invention of a touch interface might be dated to 1965. HP sold a touch screen device in 1983. By 1993 Apple had introduced its touchscreen Newton personal digital assistant.
The Apple iPhone introduced the touchscreen interface to phones in 2007. It was not until 2008 that Microsoft introduced the touch-capable Surface computer.
The point is that it often takes decades for a technology to move from idea to commercial reality at scale.
For that reason, the suggestions that 6G might feature many “internet of senses” features are almost surely wrong. Depending on how one wishes to date the process, widespread use of touch interfaces for computing devices took 35 years to 55 years.
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