well at uni I used a cheaker because everything was fast paced.
when I stopped using it for everything I found me umable to spell or
even write properly and this was for barely 6 months of doing this.
At 11:42 a.m. 27/10/2014, you wrote:
If you dictate and use a spell checker, you won't retain any sills
at spelling that you may have been taught. Why write or type
something when you can just say it? Same with reading. Why read
when someone or something can read to you? Making change rather
than relying on a machine to do it for long enough, and you won't be
able to do it anymore. After all, why bother? Calculators decrease
math skills. Let machines do everything for us, and we won't be
able to do without them, and if they break, we're sunk more quickly
than a torpedoed Lone Wolf sub Marine. By the way, on purpose, I
made some spelling miss steaks in this message. Some were corrected
by a spell checker, some weren't, because they are legitimate words
that went through with no problems. If you were doing the reading,
you caught them, but if you were listening, you probably didn't.
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finished, you! really! are! finished!
----- Original Message ----- From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] is it really progress? - Re: end of
keyboards,was Throwaway Tech
Hi Charlse.
We have had the "Braille vs screen reader" debate before and I
still disagree, if a person is listening to an audio book that is
still reading if you ask me. likewise, if a person in the future
writes a book vvia dictation that's still writing. It's content that matters.
Is a great sheff today any the less of a sheff because they do not
cut sticks, lay a fire, use a refrigerator, need to turn a spit,
use a bellows to keep the fire going or anyth of the other things
which in the past were necessary to cook? Heck no. If they are a
great sheff we judge them by what they produce, not how they produce it.
For me, a far greater concern is the standardization of methods of
production and disemination which could influence creativity. In
the same way as a sheff who only had access to tinned goods would
not be as good a sheff as a sheff who could put their own
individual stamp on fresh ingredience, I am concerned that kitbox
creation methods and standardization (not to mention need to appeal
to an increasingly small number of corporations which is a hole
other debate), might have an adverse affect on creativity.
If for example the dictation software couldn't handle fantasy
names, or unusual punctuation that could be a major creative issue.
That is why I personally believe written language and letters will
continue sinse use of letters and punctuation allows the greatest
diversity in creation, whether that's writing, coding or whatever,
and why, while I don't agree about braille, I do not like the idea
of everyone devolving into text speak sinse limitation of language
also involves limitation of thought.
I also get concerned over tools like madlibs, rhyming dictionary
programs or synonym creators, and (to bring this back to games), if
game creation became too limited. For example if the only thing on
offer was customizations of console games based on choice, eg,
creating a character by selecting from a huge bunch of elements,
rather than allowing a platform where people could program their
own games, or even create their own elements in a scripting language.
Whether in the future the letters are typed, brailled, written with
a pen, or selected from some sort of efficient on screen keyboard
doesn't seem to matter to me, same with programming so long as the
choice still exists and the end product can be as individualized.
Ironically, a friend of mine who is a student of literature said
people actually thought the same of the printing press. The
arguement was if copies of a book could be instantly created by
printing rather than painstakingly copied out by hand, this made
the book less valuable and encouraged laziness on the part of the
authors, as well as devaluing of the book on the part of the reader.
Indeed apparently some holy orders forbade religious books to be
printed, and the gutenberg Bible was actually banned in some parts of Europe.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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