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From a recent issue of Wired:
Study after study shows we remember things better when we write them—our brain stores the letter-writing motion, which is much more memorable than just the mashing of a key that feels like every other key. We think in fragments, too, in shapes and colors and ideas that just don't come through on a keyboard. "Think about how many things that are built start as a drawing," Bathiche says. "Most things, right? Everything you're wearing probably started as a drawing."
You can't type out the folds of a dress, or the gentle curves of a skyscraper. Drawing with your stubby finger on a touchscreen isn't much better. Humans are tool-based creatures: Our fingers can do amazingly intricate things with a pen, a brush, or a scalpel, that we can't replicate with a mouse or the pads of our fingers. Our computers are giving back that kind of detailed control. In turn, the pen is opening up new ways of digital expression, new tools for communication, new ways to interact with our tech.
My wife's cousin's husband is a cartoonist for the New Yorker. He uses a high-end Wacom digitizer. Hasn't the problem of the high tech pen been solved?
Original Submission
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @06:26PM
My rule is to try to provide citations when I make claims so people know that it isn't just my opinion. The burden of proof lies on the one making the claim. Telling someone to go to Google often means take my word for it. If you provide anything that contradicts their position, then they often move the goalposts or say that you didn't find the right study.
I'd rather the quacks not get away with making claims without evidence at the cost of quacks asking disingenuous questions.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday July 09 2015, @07:29PM
My rule is to try to provide citations when I make claims so people know that it isn't just my opinion.
Exactly. If a citation is needed, its should be provided up front. Any you provide later as a result of a CHALLENGE are already set up for failure.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.