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    1 month ago

    Yea that’s kind of what I was thinking when I said eventually handwriting will go the same way.

    If people never encounter it and do all their writing on keyboards, it’ll eventually be a useless skill as well.


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    1 month ago

    From a practicality standpoint, a round clockface is easier to create a mechanical drive system for.

    You can create a digital mechanical face (see: Flipboard style numerical displays) but they usually require more gears and are more susceptible to wear and tear than the gears of a round clock face.

    The simplest designs for mechanical digital displays actually just take 24 hour and 60 minute/second circular displays and hide the other numerals as the clock face spins around. Technically this I suppose counts as both analog and digital?

    Example:

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    As for electronic displays? Nah not much of a reason to use a round display unless again, you have an electric-mechanical drive and want to save on gears and parts.


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    It floors me just how many people in this thread feel like analog clock reading is a useless/outdated skill.

    But I’m of the opinion that there’s no such thing as a truly outdated and useless skill, so I’m not sure I have the capability to empathize with those people…