Hi, On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:38:30 +0000, Emile van Bergen wrote: > people tend to have a lot larger memory for words than for images and > unpronounceable hieroglyphs (icons, and -- shudder -- tool bars).
Not to nitpick, but people, and indeed entire cultures, for which this isn't true -- because written words and symbols are essentially the same thing to them -- _do_ exist. (And did, historically. Ancient Egypt comes to mind. If you believe kooks^wpeople like Mr. EvDaeniken, they even had [alien visitors with] computers. ;-) -- Matthias
