Still unconvinced? Read this
Feeling skeptical about glancing? Or perhaps you experience a failure of foresight. History has proven time and again, that many initially hard to imagine new skills, behaviors, and improvements later become perfectly natural, even trivial activities. Human bodies are adaptive and incredibly capable.
I have an enormous trust in the capacity of the human hand. The communicative utility of the vocal apparatus is amazing, but nothing beats the hand. Both the complexity and adaptive usefulness of this - actually the most important ‘output apparatus’ of our body - is unique. We rarely think about it in such terms but any ordinary everyday hand action is conveying our mind’s communication, whether it is to manipulate objects, to write, or to signal with gestures. Thus, with technology making our signaling nimble and gentle, the hand will gain a new capacity for the real time, speech-like communication. As to the singing, yelling and screaming – it will better be done the old way, vocally.
There is an increasing need for a new human-machine communication medium. While information itself is 'weightless', we tap our keyboards forcefully enough to play a marching drumbeat. That has to change. The most important aspect of glancing is its fineness. Lesser force means reduced fatigue and tissue damage. Miniature motions translate to speed. We don’t have to wave our hands over keyboards anymore to send the messages; we may just barely noticeably wiggle our fingers. Glancing uncovers this amazing, still untapped capacity, which, with the help of modern technology, will be used to elevate our communication to the level we deserve and expect in the 21st century.
Although the glancing motions belong to an ordinary motion variety, nevertheless this marvel of design, our hand, is not naturally ready to glance. The glancing skill, like all skills, has to be acquired by learning and practice. But, people will quickly adapt and wonder why it wasn’t thought of before.