Laptop diary tool in REV - Glyphs

[Richmond Mathewson]

Aah!

1 thing worries me about Phenomenalog (and it is not Phenomenalog specific):

When I began programming computers most people wrote things by hand; when I went to University people laughed at me because I did my academic work on a typewriter (1982). No people do all sorts of things using computers where they never even have to encounter text.

Subsequently, the wierdos who use typewriters are not wierdos because they are ahead of their time!

Now (and I referred to the Symbol World website {http://www.symbolworld.org/}) I see a move away from a literate populace to one that communicates with Glyphs/Icons/Pictographs - and I find this a bit worrying as it seems to be a step backwards - leading to a paucity of expression (see section in Gulliver's Travels).

Now I understand diaries to consist largely of subtle thoughts (or, at least have the potential to contain them and all their concommitant nuances of meaning) which cannot be adequately communicated in pictorial symbols.

This statement is not to be taken as a denigration of Bjerg's work at all - it should empower a very large proportion of humanity who have previously been disenfranchised by the computer revolution.

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson


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"Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to the fluidity of meanings users attach to words and phrases."
                                       Mathewson, 2006
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