Saturday, July 4, 2009

An Anthropologist Watches My Keyboard

            Here we see a sequence of buttons pressed by fingertips. Perhaps it is a ritual, a cascade of button-pushes flying up and down and all over the button-board. There is an indentation in each button because this has happened so many times. What determines the order in which they are pressed? What causes one finger to move at a certain time and not another? Certainly it cannot be random. It is near impossible to track which buttons are being pushed, let alone decipher a pattern in their rhythm. This will require further research; for now it is over my head.

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