With all due respect to the Microsoft Surface and the Apple iPhone, Multitouch technology is not particularly interesting to the average person on the street.  I know that it’s almost heresy to suggest that touch-screen technology, perhaps the most exciting brainchild of the technological revolution, is actually not really that feasible on the larger scale of things, but that is definitely the view that people have had of the technology for a very long time.

Multitouch technology has been around for years but it is only recently that a real fire has been ignited underneath it with people really thinking about ways to bring Multitouch products to the market.  Whether that was the result of the iPhone, the Surface or something else is really irrelevant at this point.  What is relevant to the conversation is answering the question that was in the title of this post.

And that question is simply one of the future of Multitouch technology.  It used to be a niche technology that never had any hopes of really making it big, but now it seems to be transforming itself into a technology that everyone might be using within a couple of decades.  Windows 7 is set to have Multitouch capability built into it and that is definitely something that will allow people the chance to buy Multitouch interfaces and try things out.

But is it enough for Multitouch to become a respectable and mainstream technology?  That seems to be the big question, but only time will tell.