Bill Hammack, the engineerguy, explains why 5% faster really wasn't good enough for the Dvorak keyboard to unthrone the QWERTY keyboard in the battle to be the dominant letter key layout for typing by hand....
And speaking of the role of new technology in driving new ways to do things, like texting on a mobile phone, there still hasn't been a major advance to really push the old QWERTY keyboard layout into the dustbin of history, where promising innovations such as Swype, Swiftkey, ai.type, Fleksy and our aesthetic favorite, Minuum actually build upon.
Time will tell which was the winner.
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