After reading about the first IBM Chinese typewriter, I discussed with a tech-buddy the advantage of the Roman alphabet vs. Chinese logographs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_typewriter#IBM_and_Kao's_electric_design

Here an interresting article about the history of Chinese typewriters and computer IO, with reference to two recent books:

Inside the long quest to advance Chinese writing technology
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/26/1096630/chinese-writing-technology-evolution-thomas-mullaney/

If we compare the Roman alphabet and Chinese logographs over history in context of technological development, we Romans had for a time an advantage in communication. Take the invention of book printing with movable types for example, take the 2x5-bit Baudaut code for telegrams, take the 7-bit ASCII code. But meanwhile I believe that the advantage reversed, some Chinese keyboards have four types of input, Roman alphabet and Zhuyin, Cangjie, Dayi for entering Chinese characters.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_input_method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_IT

Nowadays the Western advantage of an short alphabet in a technical context is gone, and meanwhile an advantage of thinking in different kind of language systems might prevail, think of the Saphir-Worf hypothesis with context of a keyboard with four different input methods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Worf_hypothesis