Word: typed
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...Perhaps the sudden appearance of RSIs last year could perhaps be explained in terms of this sudden explosion in time spent at the computer. Today there seems to be an almost inverse relationship between age and computer literacy. My father takes about an hour to type out a paragraph-long email, I can with difficulty design a spreadsheet, my twelve-year-old cousin has his own website. In fact, recent articles in technology journals like Wired and PCWeek worry that "Nintendo thumb" in children might prove an early harbinger of future RSI troubles. Podolsky sees this exponential growth in computer...
...third reason for the relative paucity of RSI in clerical work is that, in the past, not everybody went into the secretarying (or scrivening) business. If one couldn t type for long periods of time without pain then one chose a different profession. Now, however-and increasingly as figures like President Clinton tout computer ubiquity as the solution to our abysmal public schools-more and more kids grow up rattling away at the keyboard for hours...
...secretaries? Indeed, a skeptic at the most recent RSI Action meeting wondered just that. Secretaries have been taking dictation, dashing off letters, typing out memoes and generally making their living by typing for over a hundred years. Why haven t they reported RSIs? One explanation is that computer keyboards are, in a sense, too easy to type on. Unlike the unbroken skittering of keyboard touchtyping, the motion of typing on a typewriter is a larger one, involving more than just the muscles of the fingers. In addition, the need to reset the page at the end of each line...
...Harvard s own undergraduate RSI sufferers do suggest that ergonomics are a vital aspect of both the chronic injury and its cure. Daniel W. Suleiman 99, a Crimson editor, noticed "something in my hands" a year ago. Pretty soon it was unbearable. "I could not write, I could not type. These tendons were just inflamed and there was nothing to do but nurse them back. The fact is, by the time you notice anything, that s it, you ve already...
Gephardt added that these changes would not bepossible without a new type of civicparticipation...