The idea presented here is just one possibility out of many.Ĭonsidering the potential benefits in terms of effort and time saved from a more efficient typing activity, multiplied by millions or even billions of users that type every day, the overall effect can yield a potentially colossal reward with a global impact on both social and professional activities. A critical question that still has no answer is, Is the current arrangement of keys on my keyboard the most efficient and intuitive solution, effortwise and timewise? This article hopes to kick off an exchange of ideas on fundamental out-of-the-box approaches to create novel and radical open source keyboard constructions that address this question. I believe that during the electrification of typewriters over the past century, the link between human physiology and the arrangement of the keys in a keyboard, as an interface between human and machine, has been mostly overlooked. Overall, this translates into more than 100 years of monumental evolution in how we transform typing action into printed or screen-perceived text (from human-powered to electrical-powered with advanced computing), but with little to no development of the human-to-machine interface (both in terms of its logic arrangement and ergonomic features). (Original photo by Viktor Hanacek and Athena.

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