Writing and technology of any kind is intriguing. Granite (Pun Intended), clay writing would be the most grueling and mundane thing on the planet, and everyone would stop writing for the sake of sanity. Thoreau was a good man in inventing a great pencil...Who would of thought of how much technology went into making a pencil? Looks pretty simple...I myself like the pencil, preferably Dixon Ticonderoga black #2…Tastes the best…I prefer the pencil for originality when constructing a short story or paper. I find certain liberation in the connection with pad and pen. I then turn to the computer and repeat the same thoughts only with more distinction. It is an odd method but one I have grown accustom to as I was around before the word processor, or personal computer.
I find it amusing that society found fear in the typewriter. I owned an IBM Selectric and a word processor, and I have to say that Correct ‘O tape was pretty awesome…That Tap, Tap, Tap, sounding like an automatic stapler gone mad was state of the art! The down side was everyone in the office knew you were a poor typist if you backspaced all the time… The dot matrix printer was the most obnoxious of them all…It might have been a rivet gun…Teletypes were quieter with their sound proof enclosures…No Luddites smashing those damn things!
I don’t think handwriting will go obsolete ever…Not unless they bring back clay! I have voice activated software that types faster than I talk…hard to believe…But I still sit in the night, writing with my pencil…Jotting thoughts down…Letter writing I think is becoming a lost art…Composing and conveying by hand to one another whether on a technical basis or just for friendship seems difficult for some…
I think the digital future of writing will be amazing…Hopefully we will just talk to some interface and the thing will actually work! Some things are really stupid though! The digital fridge for instance! Any of my appliances start calling my on the mobile and there will be some short circuiting going on…I am not Mr. Gates! I can tell when the machine no longer functions or starts puking water on the floor…My Grandmother had a Chrysler New Yorker that told her the door was ajar and when the oil or gas was low. What it failed to do was warn her when the carburetor caught fire and to get the hell out! She was able to see smoke and run…Without the computer…I am digressing…I love the digital world but I am not logging onto Tide, or calling up the shampoo company for advice even if you think my hair could use it…There is always those that will say the it is the end of life as we know it…Maybe they should get a job or something…I still chew on pencils and type…
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