Re: Luddite

Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Spindler of Kittens <misleart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've never been able to understand the insistence that so many
people have, that their computers be as silent as possible...if the
room I'm working in is quiet enough for it to make a difference,
then it's too freaking quiet!!! Add music!!! Add conversations!!!
Silence leads to brain shutting down.

I, too, find silence oppressive. I like white noise. A good old
fashioned computer room with hundreds of whirring fans is second
only to a waterfall as a pleasant background sound.

Well, I like silence, or near-silence, but I learned to type (nearly
fifty years ago) on a proper manual typewriter, and I am accustomed
to getting various kinds of feedback, kinesthetic from the distance
my fingers travel on the keys, and aural from the click of the keys.

I've done nearly all my typing on terminal keyboards, but I, too,
prefer feedback. I don't think there's any future in "air keyboards"
where lasers read your finger positions.

Because I get this kind of feedback, I can type merrily along (at
up to 120 wpm) without looking at the keyboard and when I've made
a typo I know it without looking. I should explain that in this
typing class we were trained to look at the copy (that is, what
we were typing from, as it might be our instruction book or our
shorthand notes or whatever) AND NOT AT WHAT WE HAD JUST TYPED.

I never took a typing class, but with long practice I drifted into
being an increasingly good typist. By 26 years ago, I was having
online chats with people in which the line was set up so that each
of us only saw what the other one was typing. This allowed both
of us to type at the same time.
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