In response to comments left by my good friend CMFW, I bring what to you what makes me really excited about multi-touch interfaces, the ReacTable Wikipedia Link

Multitouch may not be the most efficient way to work 8-10 hours a day, but it makes for a really great musical/video performance interface. A keyboard and mouse isn’t exactly as inspiring as keyboard or drum. I just bought an Akai MDP24 for a Pink Skull show we’re doing Friday and it’s nice but it’d be really nice to have a fully configurable interface to perform and write with. I’m thinking we’re about 3 years away from an affordable consumer model.