5/29/2023 0 Comments Remington typing book![]() Our story concerns the history of the standard typewriter keyboard, commonly known as QWERTY, and its more recent rival, the Dvorak keyboard. ![]() But our concern here is with one such story that is put forward as part of a case against the effectiveness of free markets and individual choice. These fictions may ordinarily be little more than curiosities or mere affronts to our concern for the truth. ![]() Even after they are shown to be false, some stories are repeated, embellished, and occasionally built into entire belief systems. Like a modern horror movie villain who keeps coming back from the dead, a false story can take on a life of its own: Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow, Millard Fillmore ordered the first bathtub for the White House, that sort of thing.
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