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Dvorak
11 years ago
While I was in Minnesota I uncovered my netbook keyboard to clean all the tiny crumbs that were collecting under the keys. While I was doing this I discovered I could easily, if carefully switch the keys around. I remembered discovering Dvorak simplified key layout years ago when I had Mavis-Beacon on my old Macintosh 'brick' and searched both online and in my control panels for a way to set up my keyboard for Dvorak.
The internet directed me on the software parts, where to find the proper control panel and so on. So then I did the rearranging of the keys and have been happily learning and using this marvelously efficient setup for several months.
The Qwerty configuration is not only severely outdated, it's random and sloppy. I am not ready to understand compassionately, why people would rather continue to suffer an inefficient model rather than make the small effort to upgrade to the more useful and scientifically derived configuration.
The internet directed me on the software parts, where to find the proper control panel and so on. So then I did the rearranging of the keys and have been happily learning and using this marvelously efficient setup for several months.
The Qwerty configuration is not only severely outdated, it's random and sloppy. I am not ready to understand compassionately, why people would rather continue to suffer an inefficient model rather than make the small effort to upgrade to the more useful and scientifically derived configuration.
as you point out, that may be all fine and well, but mechanical typewriters are these days to be found mostly in museums, if at all, and what most of us type on, are an array of electrical key switches.
people do get emotionally attached to familiarity. thus we see resistance to universalization of rational systems of weights and measures.
many other lapses of logic are cherished for the sole sake of their familiarity.
fanatacisms of ideologies and organized beliefs also fall generally into this catigory.
as does the use of combustion to generate electrical energy and propel transportation.
people cling politically, to ways they are familiar with being able to get away with deceiving each other.
familiar organized beliefs create an alphabet of symbologies, which none the less, themselves defy logic.
not all traditions are bad or without usefulness. but those which are currently dominant, in a great many, possibly majority of instances, became dominant by replacing indiginious perspectives, which, being based on survival in physical, rather then social or economic, realities, were and remain, quite often the more logical.
most people think inside the boxes of their familiar cultures. which wouldn't always be such a bad thing, if those cultures were more based on the realities of the physical universe, indiginous ones were motivated by survival to be, and less on those of such shared fantasies, as substitute symbols of value, for the values they supposedly represent.
basing transportation infrastructure primarily on the private passenger automobile is another such lapse of logic, though it may not at first appear such an obvious one.
the whole idea, that because the movement of little green pieces of paper, can ignore the manor and principals of physical nature, that living persons should too, is to me, the biggest of these illogics of all.
gaaaads i do go on. it is an affliction of the old, though in truth i was born afflicted with it.