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Macfarlane's law
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'''You can talk faster than you can type, but you can read faster than you can listen.'''

This "law"'''Macfarlane's Law''' was coined in the late 1970s while David Macfarlane was working for [[B-NSR]] in the Office Information Communications Group. The law highlights the disparity between keyboard input in office systems and the speed at which users speak. It previewed the importance of speech recognition as one way of mitigating this disparity.

The alternate version of this is "You can talk faster than you can type, but you can't listen as fast as you can read."