to...@tuxteam.de (12023-03-29): > Perhaps roughly 3k to 4k years of storing, transmitting and retrieving > information in written form have a part in it. > > It may be a social convention, but by now it runs so deep that I'm > convinced you'll find epigenetic traces of it in us humans.
Or perhaps those 3-4K years of storing information have selected a format that is close to the best possible with the limitations of our brains, our eyes and our hands. Keyboards are roughly 150 years old: it is possible we find some improvement on the way they are designed that makes entering data more efficient. On the other hand, computers have not changed the fact that data enters us mostly as images and sound, so I predict it is unlikely we find means significantly more efficient than reading. Regards, -- Nicolas George
