"The Literary Piano"
In this 1954 (!) book review in TIME magazine, reflecting on the invention of the typewriter, the particulars described of the “revolution” the machine started could just as easily be applied to the internet today:
“Among other things, it created a whole new white-collar class, largely ruined penmanship, made correspondence vastly easier (though not necessarily better), inaugurated the age of carbon copies and their useless proliferation in innumerable filing cabinets, handed writers an alarmingly facile weapon of self-expression.”
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high-school and took up typing class, I always thought...typewriter in this manner. My...
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