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Why aren’t all the slides being shown? Why does the director keep switching back to Susan speaking, missing out on the slides that illustrate what she’s talking about?
Susan Kare created iconic icons (sic). A genius of UI and UX. She left her mark on computer history.
I love her sense of humor and playful self deprecation. What an amazing person, so intelilgent yet humble and accessible. I wish I'd had a role model like Ms Kare when growing up. I wish even more I'd chosen design/coding/tech for a career.
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Javanese script is a very beautiful script for me...👍🏻🥰
Came here to own the libs. Trump/Maga 2024 baby its happening. F silicone soy valley
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Why do I love this person?
what? I own a vintage hangul typewriter & it can literally type batchim, just as modern digital computers can. to type 한글 you have to press ㅎ+(batchim(shift key))+ㅏ+ㄴ ㄱ+(batchim(shift))+ㅡ+ㄹ in that order. we are lucky that we could give up chinese characters whereas japanese with so many homophones, couldn't
His arguments against discussion about chinese language reform also inconveniently would have proven that king Sejong, who created the brilliant Hangul system, was somehow racist. No dude, discussing costs and benefits of different writing systems, debating strategies to improve convenience and efficiency aren't racist. You can't go back to middle ages Korea and correct King Sejong to your way of thinking. He and every group has the right to discuss its own future and alter it if they choose. Your attempts to reinterpret legitimate discussions made by independent nonwestern people are super colonialist and also just wrong. Hangul is good; pointing out that hanzi can be a bit inconvenient isn't racist. It's true. Yet they have other unique advantages, and here we are
Sorry dude, your way of judging Remington and those other type of other companies makes no sense. First you claim that they actively excluded Chinese and you blame them for that. Then you talk about how they did try to support Chinese and you blame them for failing. I don't understand what would you have them do? So the fact that somebody in the West made an English typewriter for their own language and then started a company and then try to support other languages and failed somehow, that makes that group guilty? That doesnt make sense. If China wanted something they can make it themselves.
It is so ridiculous to say that the invention of the qwerty typewriter actively excluded 600 million Bengali speakers. That is insane. That's not how the world works
Yep wait for it ... 20:00 he holds the querty typewriter responsible for excluding vast majority of people on earth This kind of rhetoric is not realistic. If anything, those groups themselves are responsible for not having their own typewriters. The fact that an English speaker made up a typewriter did nothing to harm them. Does he think this first random guy somehow was prejudicial in not adding right to left support to the first primitive typewriter? it's just so ahistorical and conspiratorial. Inventors in the rest of the world were still free to do whatever they wanted. But you know with a guy like this he's eventually going to come around to making those distorted claims. How else does someone like that become a professional at Stanford in today's day and age?
At around 40:55, the speaker makes a mistake saying: "Vietnamese belongs to the same language family as Chinese". Chinese is within the Sino-Tibetan language family, whereas Vietnamese belongs to the Austroasiatic language family.
This is very insightful, and despite her somewhat self-effacing nature, she speaks volumes regarding how to think of design. I especially like her thoughts regarding understanding the happy Mac and how simplicity creates universality. This is food for thought regarding how we communicate today.
This is beautifully done... I have to visit!
Sbonge 🙌🏾
That was one of the best things I've heard in years. What a brilliant guy.
Joumana! Amazing work especially the traditional.
This is especially more relevant in the age of AI
Can anybody refer to the book she refers to when she answers the question about inclusivity?
Her mannerisms are so unique...
Great lecture! Professor Drucker is amazing. So grateful for Letterform Archive and their supporters.
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This lecture is amazing and actually helped reinforce what I learned in Jing Tsu’s book KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS.
She is still cute
Japanese writing, which is a variant of the same script, also uses logographs.
Thank you for this and all the other fascinating content this channel provides. As a child of the 70s and 80s in the SF Bay Area, this was a great walk down memory lane and tech history lesson.
Thank you so much Ben!! fascinating - I've made the computer type journey myself over 40 years and your summary is complete and so edifying!!! All the very best for your future work!!
Bravo 👏🏽
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey 🙂
What a babe
So incredibly interesting
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*PromoSM*
I don't understand a single word in Javanese or Bahasa Indonesia at all But seeing a rich typographic history like this makes me happy.
I appreciate how she's talking about something on the screen, but we don't see the slide she's talking about.
Woooooww, finally Javanese script show up in this channel!
𞤮𞤲 𞤱𞤫𞤤𞤼𞤢𞤲𞤢𞥄𞤥𞤢 𞤷𞤫𞤪𞤲𞤮𞥅𞤩𞤫 ❤️❤️👍
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At 18:00, there’s no mention of Mayan scripts! Which although they fell into disuse are experiencing something of a resurgence.
Very nice!
Starts at 2:20
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感谢科普,比很多中国人做的都相信
Amazing
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It is quite clear that the solution for illiteracy and hypography in those exotic countries lies in their own hands. If he thinks that it is the west that needs to solve this "problem" for them, then he basically repeats the same condesending mindset of the pre-digital era when the QWERTY typewriter was "imposed" on the non-alphabetic languages. Why this should be a western problem at all?? No one can teach the chinese to master their own language better than the chinese, or any other counrty for that matter. It is strongly implied in his talk that it is the west that actually caused this hypography/disgraphia epidemic in china making them sort of "victims" of mechanization/westernazation. But in fact, it is actually the computer that made it finally possible to build a fully functional non-alphabetic typewriter. Retrieving words from the computer memory in order to write is not nessesarily a bad thing, especially for a langhuage that has thousands of characters. Maybe actually this computer-aided writing made the chinese and other similar language speaking countries so successfully integrated into the modern world? Maybe it actually boosted their communication quality so high that they quickly became one of the richest economies in the world?...
Looks like Armenian
Very weird to frame this in terms of a sort of "epidemic'" or "cognitive decline". I'd challenge most people to remember basic math equations they could do in high school but no longer can because they simply stopped doing so and their brain decided it was no longer worth retaining. This isn't some sort of disfunction or disease of the mind, that's how the brain works. You don't use it, you lose it. I strongly feel if this was occurring in the United States this narrative surrounding disease or epidemics would not be played out.
How does "You don't use it, you lose it." apply when they are reading all of these characters? They are using them every single day.