The Chinese Computer by Thomas S. Mullaney

Author:Thomas S. Mullaney [Mullaney, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Chinese language; QWERTY keyboard; linguistics; Computer; Keyboard; Input; Artificial intelligence; Predictive text; User interface; Natural language processing; Innovation in computing; Human-Computer Interaction; Computer history; Global communication; Keyboard design; Technology; Typing technology; Invention; Chinese personal computer; Risk-taking; EntrepreneurshipTechnological progress; Engineering challenges; Computer design; Computer hardware; Engineering
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2024-05-07T00:00:00+00:00

Into the future, as character- and compound-based processing undergo even deeper research, and as even more ideal character libraries of even higher quality are created, we have every hope that users, with leisurely keystrokes, will be able to reach or greatly outpace the speed of human speech.35

In contrast, many in the West continued to offer starkly different outlooks, including one of the most renowned Chinese linguists: “In word processing,” John DeFrancis wrote (also in 1989), “we normally input alphanumeric symbols and print out text expressed in the same symbolic code. This is very simple and highly efficient, especially when the operator is a skilled touch typist.” As DeFrancis concluded:

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