can anyone explain why the type writer guy was the center piece? who is he?

That's what I believe..and intelligent design is a valid theory. I think you would have to pretty arrogant to think that there was no possibility of the Universe being created..and if it was, we will see evidence of design. Why is that a non-idea? If the Universe was created, science should be able to verify it..take for example, the DNA molecule, which is a digital information storage device with redundant error correction overlapping information, specified and complex information, and has syntax grammar and punctuation.. any programmer could tell you the likelyhood of that arising out of random mutation is laughable. its been compared to a print shop exploding into the encyclopedia brittanica. But science seems to think a trillion monkeys at a trillion type writers *will* eventually write shakesphere. but according to them our ancestors are rocks..i think i might buy that if it was a much closer relation.
>> ^acidSpine:
So... Your god did it?
Can I ask if you're at all surprised science doesn't want anything to do with these non-ideas?In reply to this comment by shinyblurry:
The cambrian explosion is a mystery and cannot be explained away by darwinian theory no matter how loudly people shout and stomp their feet.

>> ^shuac:

I'd be really curious to know if there's anything more dumb than DJing or whatever we'd like to label this activity. I'm at a loss, I'll try to think of something.


Check out that video of Michael Winslow makin' typing writer noises.

What if I want to type ? the fact is for most pc interaction you dont need to use a mouse. really fast people can use a keyboard way faster than a mouse on its own. I think the reason people use a mouse for general pc interaction is because its incredibly simple and intuitive.

This system to me looks far more complicated than a mouse not because its "new" but because you have to have 2 hands on the serfice and you have up to 10 graphical points of interaction on the screen you allso have to be thinking about 2 hands not just one , manny people strugle to use 2 hands on a piano granted this is infantly more simplistic than that but its still more complex than 1 hand on a mouse.

I would like tactile force of keys of some kind , I think a good solution would be a mostly flat keyboard but the serfice is touch sensitive ( they do exist already just not that refined) you can have it so that soft touching would do multituch and give access to all the benefits of multi touch systems / wacom pads. however it would be able to be used 100% like a old school querty keybord along with a mouse.

If you observe history of PC HCI devices its a simple fact that people are not going to drop there learned method of interaction , unless it is Radically more eficent , if its within 30% more efficiency people would rather just stick with the old and comfortable HCI device. ~( this explains the reason why a pc keyboard is accentually a 1860s design. http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/IMAGES/sgtablesm.jpeg what's funny is the first ever type writers key interface is not that dissimilar to the most modern of laptops)

people are generaly open to different methods of interaction if it is a compleaty new or perceived as a different device , or there is no better way to control the device at point of the device invention.

I think Mind controle of Pcs would be a good compliment to keybord , mouse , / keybord no mouse but maby thats 10 years away.


Interestingly and not so unsurprisingly the whole "Still using something that is fairly shitty way of doing things but it works" is mirrored all the time in the progression biological evolution.