In his book “Shift Happens,” Marcin Wichary explains the innovations that turned the typewriter of 1873 into the keyboards of today. How many hours a day do you spend at a computer typing? Or staring ...

You may use a keyboard every day. Odds are, you never think about the six letters on the top left corner: Q-W-E-R-T-Y. It seems unnecessarily complicated to arrange the alphabet out-of-order. And yet, ...