BETTER TYPEWRITERS
The standard typewriter keyboard exemplifies our resistance to change. The most commonly used keys are intentionally placed far apart from each other. The arrangement on the keyboard was strategically placed to slow down the typist so that the early machines in the 1800s would not jam. About forty years later, the keyboard was simplified and called the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard. The most frequently used keys were moved to the primary row of keys. Typists could type as much as five times as fast with this keyboard. The innovation never took. The reason: even when things could be more efficient, we don’t to change. Adapted from The MacIntosh Church Growth Network, Volume 9, Issue 11, November 1997
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