> On 3 May 2014, at 09:15, Ros Knox & Michael Barry <xxxxxx@homemail.com.au> wrote:
>
> These days I teach touch-typing (among an assortment of more intellectual business topics, I must hastily add!) and I use what are essentially Timothy Collison's arguments to respond to students' objections.

Timothy or tc is fine with me!  Thank you though.  I've noticed Brits
are happy to call me Tim without asking.  On the Continent (and yes, I
know the UK is technically part of the continent of Europe) they're
much more likely to ask.

>
> When I learned to touch-type, a friend of mine said I was crazy. Why would I bother, when in a few years' time we'd be able to speak to our computers...
>
> That was in 1990.

I think I was promised it in the 80s!

tc