Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > 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.
Hmm, I suppose Neuralink et al might disagree with you. Only partly in jest :)
