I also wonder how long it will take me to become proficient enough for thumb-typing to be as good as (e.g. as fast) or better than handwriting, even with bad handwriting. I imagine if I could just grab a fairly small notebook to jot down a note, like a reminder to buy something, a "to-do," I'd be more likely to do it than either by thumb typing or getting out a laptop and typing it. Any PDAs or smartphones that work with speech dictation, which can covert to written text? That seems most appealing.
Randall On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:35 PM, db <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the hidden issues that I don't see being considered by anybody re: > thumb texting is RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury) tendinitus. > > Try to think of other examples where the human thumb has ever been used > liked this historically. If you can't think of one... you can be pretty > sure the thumb wasn't developed for it and will fail with repetition. > Cumulatively with age... > Carpel Tunnel move over... > > I watch the 20 something gamers cracking their hands to relieve the > irritation they receive from gaming. Add 20 or 30 years to those hands/ > tendons etc. ... will they be having hand replacements? > > db > > > Tom Piwowar wrote: > >> >From my brief reading up on the internet and talking to 2 friends, I >> thought >> >> >>> some differences are: 1) you can hand write on a notebook and 2) >>> notebooks >>> don't usually have internal drives. Is that not the case? I'll have to >>> read up on netbook as well. >>> >>> >> >> One of the happiest tech changes I have ever made is moving from a PDA >> that used handwriting input (Graffiti) to one that had a small thumb-size >> keyboard. >> >> >> ************************************************************************* >> ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >> ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >> ************************************************************************* >> >> >> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
