Dvorak Training Center

Housed within a Halliburton case, the Mobile Dvorak Training Center teaches the layout of the DVORAK Keyboard to a user, and instills a competitive and accurate skill-set through the use of computer gaming.

-The QWERTY keyboard to which most of the English world types is a carry-over from another writing technology- the typewriter.  Developed in 1873 by Christopher Lathem Sholes, the keys order and configuration was designed to prevent most of the typewriters mechanical levers from jamming when two adjacent letters were pressed simultaneously.  Although it was an elegant solution to a very pressing problem of the time It serves no purpose for the electronic keyboards prevalent today.

So why do we still have it?  What is an alternative?

-The Dvorak Keyboard was designed in 1936 by Dr. August Dvorak to increase typing speed and lessen the chances of repetitive stress injury.  It however was not capable of displacing the considerable investment in the QWERTY layout.  Too much time had gone in to the existing typing infrastructure (keyboards, trained typists, etc.) and even with the increase in efficiency and health benefits, manufacturing companies could not be persuaded.   Most individuals didn’t even know there was an alternative.  Many still don’t.

So who cares?

-The Keyboard is just an example of many systems in this world that are heavily used and never questioned.  These infrastructures’ are stagnated by an antiquated architecture and invested interest in their existence.  It is important to question these systems and understand that just because they were, doesn’t mean they are, the correct answer.

Still don’t care?

-Then just kill Zombies