There was a submission on here a while about stenography and stenotype keyboards (actually it was about an open-source library for them called Plover [1]). Thes

There was a submission on here a while about stenography and stenotype keyboards (actually it was about an open-source library for them called Plover [1]). These are the machines used by court reporters to achieve the fastest typing speeds (which in some ways makes them superior input devices that we could learn from). One thing that struck me was that over time each stenographer develops their own "dictionary" by essentially defining macros in the embedded software. This got me thinking - what if we made a product like this that was given to children, that gradually mutated over time, learning from the usage? Ideally by the time they get to high school they would have these input devices that more organically map to their brains and they would be able to effortlessly type at extreme speeds. We might even be able to solve the sharing problem if the configuration is pure software, like the keyboard with OLED displays in each button. But that also might not be necessary if they were portable/virtual/wearable such that it would be natural to carry at all times. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8510409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8510409