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To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (54515)	4/4/1999 2:02:00 PM
From: IceShark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

tines stuck together if they typed too fast, so the characters were arranged to slow down their typing. BB, I can't believe you wrote that. Slowing them down too much would be pretty stupid wouldn't it? QWERTY was developed so that the most used sequential keystrokes were separated as best as possible to minimize the contact/collision zone. Regards, Ice

To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (54515)	4/4/1999 3:19:00 PM
From: BGR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Bonnie, I believe that India has more English speakers/readers/writers than the US (and mostly certainly than the UK and Australia), so I do not expect India to up with a new keyboard standard. China may be a different story. Besides, English is the only common language used in schools in all the Indian states as the medium of instruction. (I should have mentioned Hindi as well, though the ratio is staggerring in favor of English.) However, I expect voice recognition technology to replace keyboards in not-so-distant future. -BGR.

To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (54515)	4/4/1999 7:10:00 PM
From: moonsparks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Bonnie, Thanks for the reply. >>>1) learn about bonds and the bond market too. zero-coupon treasury bonds outperform most stock funds.<<< Where can I do this? Do you recommend any reading? >>>Keep an eye on China and India for a new tech cycle, they will need to reinvent the PC to make it useful, computers don't have to think in English.<<< I was under the impression that most Indians are proficient in English, largely as a result of the time of British rule. And that this is why they are making headway into Silicon Valley as software engineers. >>We have this fantasy in this country about forcing the rest of the world to learn English, but this represents intellectual genocide of 95% of the world's culture.<< My viewpoint is totally based on my limited knowledge of the rest of the world, but if I had to guess between the rest of the world learning English versus the rest of the world developing technology in their own languages, I would go with the former.