"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.”
When I was in high-school and took up typing class, I always thought of the typewriter in this manner. My classmates would often comment how fast I typed and would often attribute it to my being a classical pianist. Well, those were the days when my fingers possessed such dexterity. Now they can only cough out short phrases and anecdotes such as this one to fill in the gaps of my creative musings gone dry.
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high-school and took up typing class, I always thought...typewriter in this manner. My...
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