Traumwind - I will repeat myself

traumwindETP: Your wish is my command [10/12/2000]
Have you ever wondered why people in films, books etc. usaually use a keyboard to communicate with an computer? I mean, look at most SciFi films where they use computers similar to ours... They enter command using a keyboard, and not a mouse. If you read a book how often do they 'enter a few commands' and how often do they 'click the mouse'...?
Maybe this keyboard thing is just the more - natural - way to 'talk' to a computer. After all 'entering commands' implies words, not gestures. If you want someone to do something, you tell him, you don't point him, not?
But then, most modern software makes you 'point and click', as if the software were too stupid to understand commands... Or are we too stupid to give our servant proper commands? To speak it's language? point-'n'-grunt^TM

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