We've been reading top-down for well over 2000 years, since the very beginnings of writing, in almost all languages. If you really believe twitter and touchscreen-gadgets will overthrow that in not even one generation then you should absolutely share some of the kraut that you are smoking over there.
150 years ago, horse-drawn transport was the primary means of non-human-powered land transport... and had been for over 4,000 years. But by 50 years ago, not so much.
When a truly new technology arrives, things change a lot in just a few generations, with 'generation' meaning the 20-30 year average gap from birth to being a child-rearing adult.
Ok. So we have computers now, a truly new technology. And thus we will soon collectively decide that writing backwards is better because then we can look at the world above our screen better.
Yes, on second thought this is absolutely comparable to the invention of horseless carriage and makes perfect sense.
We've been reading top-down for well over 2000 years, since the very beginnings of writing, in almost all languages. If you really believe twitter and touchscreen-gadgets will overthrow that in not even one generation then you should absolutely share some of the kraut that you are smoking over there.