Fascinating as the chorded keyboard is, its confinement to the ghetto of “crackpot technology” is but a symptom of the underlying disease: <a href="http://www.loper-os.org/?p=316">the total victory of the technological business model which caters primarily to the unskilled</a>.

Looking at the intriguing question of why the chorded keyboard never took off as an input mechanism.

Andrew Orlowski:

Metro is a user interface designed for smartphones, which I have praised generously, and which looks good and works well on small devices. It may yet mature into something equally attractive and useful on iPad-like tablets. But welded onto a non-touch laptop or desktop PC, it represents a huge negative for the majority of Windows users.

Dan Frommer sums up what the new Twitter is about, and why. Note that not everyone has the new interface yet.

Photo shows people resting their drinking glasses on a Microsoft Surface (multi-touch-sensitive) table and each reading a "paper".<br />
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"Sure it’s a Surface 1.0 unit as 2.0 isn’t out in the wild yet but this is one way (not the only way) I’d like to read my newspaper. At Casa Clayton, we currently have a PC in the kitchen that is used to keep in touch with news from the motherland (UK) and we often find ourselves discussing stories but this would be a much nicer way to do it – at high resolution on a big screen with lots of manipulation capability."<br />
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Oh, absolutely - everyone wants to spend thousands of pounds/dollars on a fragile piece of equipment that's reliant on electricity supplies and which can't be carried around and whose height isn't adjustable to read their newspapers on. It's a marvel they aren't in every room.