Bill,you are probably right about the future of keyboards. What i don,t understand is ,pc,s now are so fast,powerful and inexpensive and yet Wersi boards are SO expensive, the Ikarus is around �4000 ie $7000 and the abacus around �4800 ie,$8400 (that is the price in uk)i agree that you can update them, but if we were to say you can pay $1500 for the latest pc, that still means you are paying $5500 for the keyboard + technology, this is the reason other companies are doing the same idea with a cheaper price tag and as production increases prices may fall even more especially if the big firms go in this direction.Mike