Some of the best Inventors and scientists on the planet have spent the last 50 or 60 years improving a machine from the typewriter stage all the way to Having audio and video capabilities with a built in computer and now the younger generation scraps all that so they can pick out inane messages one letter at a time.
So you have a fancy new prototype keyboard in front of you that lets you type entire words with a single keystroke? Unless I’m mistaken, everyone with a computer ‘picks out’ their ‘inane messages’ one letter at a time.
The reality of the situation is that any time a new technology improves communication, it takes a while for the public to determine, as a society, an acceptable level of its use. Over the past 20 years or so, the broad category of “communication” has expanded at such an alarming rate that by the time we get comfortable with one thing, it’s obsolete.
Luckily (?) for us, the computer explosion is about to slow down. They’re pretty close to making computers that are as fast as they can get with the materials they’re made of. Processors are nearing the peak of their potential at an atomic level, and once we have an established standard of computer capability, the technology that puts it to use will standardize, and the standards of acceptable communication will become more firmly established.
Just think, even 20 years ago, people would have laughed if you suggested that it would be commonplace for everyone to carry palm-sized phones daily. 15 years ago, the thought of surfing the internet with a cell phone was science fiction to most. 10 years ago, nobody would have suspected that grown adults would be complaining about spam on their facebook page. And as recently as 5 years ago, you’d have gotten laughs for suggesting that CNN would have a Twitter (along with the question “what the heck is a twitter?”).
Just think of what we’ll be accepting as commonplace in 2015 that is a ridiculous notion now.
Like it or not, any communication advances are a good thing. If society followed the anti-tech folks, we’d be making FAOL posts via the pony express. 
Understand that I’m not saying that the text inbox of a 13 year old is a fountain of wisdom…just that communication is the biggest advancement that sets us apart from the dark ages.
