Article note: That's an interesting object.
It's sort of a conventional chorder, it's sort of a sliding-element input device, it's sort of a stenographic input device.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”