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brianstorms weblog: February 2005 Archives
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February 24, 2005
Cursor Words, or, Offensive Gestures of the Future
Someone had sent me a link to something entirely unrelated (a page about the mysteries of the In-n-Out fast food menu ) today and that led me to notice that the same site had a page about the origins of the gesture of giving someone the finger :
In 1415, before the Battle of Agincourt, the French were anticipating a great victory over the English. The French proposed to cut off the middle fingers of all captured English soldiers, thus making it impossible for the English soldiers to draw the renowned longbow and making them incapable of fighting in the future. This famous weapon was made of the native English yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew."
This got me thinking about what might be the offensive gestures of the future? (Alas, Google knows not a thing about such a query .)
For instance, at some point, people are going to stop using mice, once we all have datagloves or better yet, some sort of sensing device that watches your body language and interprets gestures as instructions for interacting with a computer application.
But are there mice gestures now, or simply jargon related to windows-icon-mouse-pointer (WIMP) interfaces, that in decades (or more likely) centuries hence, would be considered outrageous insults or profanities?
"Go click yourself!"
"Cancel you!"
"Drag and drop!"
How about physical gestures related to present-day mouse use? I can imagine a hand gesture where it appears you're holding a mouse, and draging it angrily down and to the right, as if you were taking a document and tossing it in the Mac's trash can? Or another hand gesture where again it appears you're holding a mouse, and you extend your index finger and then make a motion as if you were clicking the left button of your mouse? Which reminds me: TV remote controls are ano"
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