Could the layout of letters on a keyboard be shaping how we feel about certain words? It's long been thought that how a word sounds -- its very phonemes -- can be related in some ways to what that ...
Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. He's talking about the QWERTY layout — in use since the earliest typewriters.
We're living in an age of multiple connected screens, where even our media-savvy televisions demand some occasional typing to search for a videogame, TV show or Netflix rental. Problem is, typing ...
Excerpted from New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything, written by Graham Lawton and illustrated by Jennifer Daniel. Technology often contributes new words to the English language: television ...
It's rare these days to see anyone pounding away on an old manual Royal or Smith-Corona. But one element of those machines lives on, and is used constantly in daily life. Just as Milwaukee is the ...