Dr. Igor is a psychiatric, trying to cure the mental illness of patients at Villete, a lunatic asylum.
Dr. Igor talking to one of his patients, Mari:
"We call it the QWERTY keyboard, because that's the order of the letters on the first row of keys. I once wondered why it was like that, and I found the answers: The first machine was invented by Christopher Sholes, in 1873, to improve on calligraphy, but there was a problem: If a person typed very fast, the keys got stuck together and stopped the machine from working. Then Sholes designed the QWERTY keyboard, a keyboard that would oblige typists to type more slowly."
"I don't believe it."
"But it's true. It so happened that Remington--which made sewing machines as well as guns at that time--used the QWERTY keyboard for its first typewriters. That meant that more people were forced to learn that particular system, and more companies started to make those keyboards, until it became the only available model. To repeat: The keyboard on typewriters and computers was designed so that people would type more slowly, not more quickly, do you understand? If you changed the letters around, you wouldn't find anyone to buy your product."
'Veronkia Decides To Die' by Paulo Coelho
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