Why are QWERTY keyboard keys laid out like they are?
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"The type-bar system and the universal keyboard were the machine's novelty, but the keys jammed easily. To solve the jamming problem, another business associate, James Densmore, suggested splitting up keys for letters commonly used together to slow down typing. This became today's standard "QWERTY" keyboard."
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typewriters (the humans who used these machines, not the machines).
The problem is that QWERTY works. It does slow down what we now call typists (or secretaries or administrative assistants, or Mahalo Answerers). And we don't want to be slowed down anymore.
There are alternatives, of course, used by a minority of savvier characters.
BTW, the original typewriters/secretaries were men. When this gradually morphed into women's work the relative payscale took a nosedive, as per usual.
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