I do a lot of copying and pasting. So does everybody who uses a keyboard. And it’s true that perhaps the most valuable class in my 20 years of education was a typing class in 9th grade.
Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like without the ability to hit control-c and control-v on that same keyboard. Could I do anything? Would any work get done? Could any code get written, any emails responded to, any spreadsheets built, any ideas revised, any reports written, any Photoshop images get made? I don’t think so. My new theory is that these two keystrokes, and these two keystrokes alone, are the keys to our global efficiency.