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Death to typewriters
- wellthisisgreat 5y agoThe non-typewriter text does look good, but just the thought of having to do the regex on it is terrifying.
- hollerith 5y agoEven the example the author uses of good typography [1] is hard ("tedious"?) to look at compared to most of the things humans look at. [1] https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*DnymhUCjFLaG0wPxzj_now.png https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*DnymhUCjFLaG0wPxzj_now.pn... While "good typography" is easier to look at all day than the output of a typewriter is, all text is hard to look at for a long time, and the author is concerned with minor improvements that do not fix the main problem. The main problem might be called the frozen-lake effect: when a human being in the outdoors finds him- or herself in a environment without hills or trees or things that suggest or resemble hills or trees, he or she becomes slightly uncomfortable, impatient and much more willing to be unkind to his or her fellow human beings. Text on a page or a screen resembles a frozen wilderness or a desert much more than it does an environment with hills or trees (unless the text is so large that only a few letters will fit on the page). We put up with it because the written word is so extremely useful, but hopefully soon some technology (maybe some derivative of voice assistants like Siri) will appear that has most or all of the tremendous advantages of text without the frozen-lake effect.