The Touch Screen craze has officially begun. Ever since the iPhone came out, every tech company rushed to the market to sell touch screen phones. Now there are even touch pads! Touch seems to be taking over the world. Everywhere you look, there are touchscreens. Because everyone is born with fingers, touching seems like the best way to go. It's very convenient and reliable most of the time.
Today, companies like Samsung and various other companies who produces touch screens are having a hard time meeting demand. Apple, one of the biggest purchasers of touch screens recently made a $7.8 Billion dollars contract with Samsung for touch screens. With this kind of demand, you would think prices would go down. The opposite is completely true. As a matter of fact, resources to build these screens are limited. There is just so much of it that we can mine to build them. I was reading an article a couple months ago about how all the resources will be depleted by the year 2020 if the current demands hold. I'm pretty sure it would quadruple by then. In a couple years, everything would probably be touch screen. Doors, tvs, cars, shoes, games, etc.
At the end of the day, engineers will have to start finding a new way to touch. Whether its a hologram or some amazing alien technology.
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