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Comment on Neil Kay's paper-'Rerun the tape of history and QWERTY always wins'

机译:评论尼尔·凯(Neil Kay)的论文-“重温历史,QWERTY永远赢”

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Every so often a paper comes along and applies theoretical reasoning to settle some particular question in history. Neil Kay's is such a paper, and it settles two seemingly trivial questions in technology history: whether it is a coincidence inherited from the past that the top line of our typewriter keyboards can spell out the word TYPEWRITER (Kay argues it is not); and whether it is speculation that the keyboard's layout was designed to prevent jamming (Kay again argues it is not). These questions are part of how the QWERTY keyboard came into being - again an historical question of seemingly limited importance. But QWERTY, as a standard - or better as an example of what the market has served us up in the long evolution of one particular technology - has become in economics a focal point, a rallying point for a larger issue: whether the market can lock us into an inferior standard. And this itself is part of a still larger issue: whether the free markets of capitalist economies can drive us into inferior outcomes.
机译:每时每刻都有一篇论文出现,并运用理论推理来解决历史上的某个特定问题。尼尔·凯(Neil Kay)的论文就是这样,它解决了技术历史上两个看似微不足道的问题:打字机键盘的顶行可以拼写出TYPEWRITER这个词是否是过去的巧合(Kay认为不是);以及是否猜测键盘的布局旨在防止卡塞(Kay再次认为不是)。这些问题是QWERTY键盘如何产生的一部分-同样是历史上看似重要性有限的问题。但是QWERTY,作为一种标准-或更佳地作为市场在一项特定技术的长期发展中为我们服务的例子-已成为经济学的焦点,是更大问题的集结点:市场是否可以锁定我们陷入劣等标准。这本身就是一个更大的问题的一部分:资本主义经济的自由市场是否能够使我们陷入劣等的后果。

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    《Research policy》 |2013年第7期|1186-1187|共2页
  • 作者

    W. Brian Arthur;

  • 作者单位

    Santa Fe Institute, and Intelligent Systems Lab, PARC, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《工程索引》(EI);
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  • 正文语种 eng
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