Typewriter Returns!
The Japanese multinational Brother sold 12,000 electronic typewriters last year in the UK, which is its biggest market in Europe. Electronic typewriters, not computers. BBC is now saying many people are going back to the tired old typewriters. Why?
The writer Will Self is a convert. He went back to using a manual typewriter several years ago. "I think the computer user does their thinking on the screen, and the non-computer user is compelled, because he or she has to retype a whole text, to do a lot more thinking in the head," he said in a recent interview. More
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