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Story: Another challenge to QWERTY's dominance

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It's a kind a metaphor on humans that we are using an inefficient keyboard when there are more efficient alternatives. Imagine the savings in the economy if everyone was touch typing on a Dvorak as opposed to one-fingered typing and the exclusiveness and cost/time spent on training touch-typers on QWERTY boards ?

It doesn't make sense to me to stick to something that is obviously inefficient and so common in communication. Inertia doesn't seem a good reason not to change IMHO.

A comparison can be made with mobile phone texting. All children should be taught shorthand to communicate (e.g. savings in the economy and better use of time in education), but it was never done. Along come mobiles and they make up a shorthand language of their own due to necessity.

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