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Computers exist to represent, transmit, and display _human_ communications. If a computer system cannot represent a human utterance we should extend the repres
by kristjansson 3y ago
Computers exist to represent, transmit, and display _human_ communications. If a computer system cannot represent a human utterance we should extend the representational capacity of the computer system, not force the human to conform to the limitations of the technology.
- yencabulator 3y agoI'm also all for eliminating overly complicated typographical conventions from places where they are technologically possible.
- account42 3y agoComputers also generally don't support scribbles in the margins of your document. Or stylized glyph variants except a few that have been grandfathered in, e.g. ꙮ. Neither does the computer support whatever ligatures you might make up on the spot. One thing that makes computers more powerful than analog tools is that they are much much much more structured. So while we should not take computer limits for granted I think that the opposite extreme is just as if not even more absurd.