Friday, May 03, 2013

[ugrjpfjo] Human language of numbers

Can humans learn to read and write, with high facility, a language consisting entirely of numbers? At first, we consider a transliteration of English, reducing all letters, punctuation, whitespace, and font changes to a series of numeric codes.

Somewhat equivalently, a language with a very small written alphabet.

Inspired by the unwieldiness of text input and output especially for mobile devices.  Compare the electronic complexity of a seven-segment numeric display versus a pixel display.  Instead of adapting technology to human customs, adapt humans to technology.

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