Word: keyboarding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...questions. "I was really not in favor of the laptop administration because I'm coming out of a tradition where you really want to look the person in the eye," Giordano says. But teenagers today are used to reading on a monitor and pouring their hearts out onto a keyboard. "Basically the kids really like it," says Giordano. "They're from that generation, so they just roll with...
...handwriting skills peaked sometime in my 12th year, shortly after I took a summer typing class. A few months later my parents bought a personal computer. Before long my writing life migrated to the keyboard, and my handwriting began its steady decline to the pained, barely legible scrawl that it is today...
...penmanship expert would look at that sorry trend and say, "What a disaster! The adoption of the personal computer has led to a marked deterioration of an important communication skill." But that assessment would be meaningless without factoring in all the benefits I've enjoyed from switching to the keyboard. Not only can I put words together at 10 times the speed of using pen and paper, but I can also transfer those words to the digital realm, where they can be edited, spell-checked, e-mailed, quoted, blogged and Googled...
...released in 2000, and its follow-up, Amnesiac, only made matters worse. On many songs, the lyrics were distorted or unintelligible; the brilliant rock guitarwork was largely replaced with electronic blips and keyboard-driven sound poems. Detractors harped that Radiohead had become pretentious and preening - more style than substance. But, to those who were listening closely, including a fair number of influential rock critics, the music was groundbreaking and sublime...
...short “boop” announced that I had new e-mail. My fingers moved in a blur across the keyboard with a swiftness born of three years of e-mail addiction. The message in my inbox said that the private e-mails of one of Harvard’s exclusive social clubs were publicly accessible. Other Harvard students across a few other e-mail lists had already been forwarded this information, but so far the link to the social club’s e-mail archives hadn’t been widely distributed...