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> We are primarily using the same methods of input and the same applications for “productivity” as we did 20 years ago. Longer than that. We've been using keyb
by ams6110 9y ago
> We are primarily using the same methods of input and the same applications for “productivity” as we did 20 years ago.
Longer than that. We've been using keyboards for over a century. The basic idea of a document is centuries older still. Maybe there's nothing really better.
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- imtringued 9y agoFor some reason the article focuses on the solved problems and then complains that they are still solved with the same good old solutions instead of being completely replaced by newer solutions that might be worse at the old problems but good at newer problems. Keyboards have solved the problem of efficient text entry. PDFs have solved the problem of displaying documents exactly the same way on every computer. Written text has solved the problem of efficiently recording and passing on information thousands of years ago. The new solutions solve the same but slightly different problems by trading off one aspect for another. The touch screen is not the most efficient way of text entry and selecting 2D points but it's the most portable. But this comes at a cost. When you use a touchscreen your fingers obscure the screen and virtual keyboards take screen realestate away. This is an acceptable tradeoff when you're not constantly interacting with the computer. The bandwidth of a human to a computer is very limited. Even very fast typist can only transmit two words per minute or 10 bytes per second. It's not worth it to waste 50% of you r already very limited productivity on something just because it's new.