You can argue that the same holds true for handwritten text, but expert handwriting analysts can usually tell a lot about you from just your signature. Although I always think I'm doing the same thing, this pops up sometimes when I log out of our Elite System. I get the distinct impression that their goals are totally unrealistic, and thus that it is either hype or a reflection that they don't know what they are talking about. It answers all the questions about who, what, when, why and how. What we have that they don't is the experience in software, especially Artificial Intelligence, but with a dedicated effort that may not be a problem to the Japanese.
Japanese workers take pride in their products and quality.
One can then select what one wishes to read. It is not perfect, unfortunately. It probably should have had both names, since the normal object one deletes is a disk-file. I have used over 20 operating systems in my nearly 20-years of writing computer programs. ALthough the fact that most of us interact through boring, non-graphic terminals might dull our senses, the clues to what would make a good man machine interface lie all around us in magazines, signs, labels on buttons and knobs, etc.