A Headset Company Says the Keyboard Is Dying. Here's the Catch.
Jabra just launched a new headset line and, along with it, a bold prediction: voice AI will become the default way we work by 2028. No more typing emails, drafting documents, or prompting AI tools. Just talking. It's a compelling story. It's also worth noticing who's telling it. The headline stat comes from a joint study with the London School of Economics, and it's genuinely interesting: 14% of participants already prefer voice over typing when using GenAI tools. That's a real, measurable shift. It's also a long way from "the keyboard is a Victorian construct," which is how Jabra's own product marketing manager, Richard Trestain, put it. He's not exaggerating on the history, the modern typewriter really does trace back to 1867. Whether that makes today's keyboard obsolete or just old is a different question entirely. Trestain is a genuine power user of this shift. He runs his entire workday through a foot pedal and a voice AI dictation ap...
