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Keeping your hands up or head down for long time sucks.

• stcredzero 14y ago
  Funny, but I used horizontal workspaces with high-contrast stylus driven reflective display/interfaces for decades. When I was a kid, those were called "desks" with "paper." Working like that for a long time sucks, but so does an "ergonomically correct" PC workstation. Also strange is that my girlfriend's RSI (non-carpal tunnel) is more aggravated by the PC workstation than it is by writing with pen and paper on a horizontal desk.
  • philwelch 14y ago
    Sure, but the keyboard-down-display-up workspace dates back to the typewriter.
    • stcredzero 14y ago
      Workspace "up?" From what I remember of using a typewriter, I was still looking downwards at the "display." All of the people I see in co-working spaces and the like on laptops, even the 17" ones are mostly still looking downwards. Maybe they aren't looking so far downwards as the desktop, though my impression is that people still look downwards a lot at their keyboards. I don't think that we're so vulnerable to looking downwards as people seem to say. So long as we have someplace we can rest our arms, I don't think we've exhausted the possible good workstation/display configurations.