This video is awesome! Mirabai Knight, creator of Plover, talks about the basics of steno and her open source steno program. She also poignantly explains why the art of steno is endangered and how it can be revived. (“Unfortunately, the reason why there are so few stenographers and why so many of them are so old is because the only way to learn steno these days is through for-profit trade schools that are really kind of scams…They’ll let anybody in. They’ll cost a huge amount of money in tuition, plus buying the machine, buying the software, and the national dropout rate is 85%…)

SIDEBAR: The 3-D printer printing out a steno machine is a cool idea!