Fear Of Surveillance Spurs Revival Of Typewriters

Typists of the World, Unite! A New Book Looks Inside the 'Typosphere'

Some might call typewriters a dead technology but a quiet revival is afoot, claims philosophy professor Richard Polt – spurred, in his case, by a fear of surveillance

Rebecca Rego Barry | November 30, 2015

At the Miami Book Fair earlier this month, Richard Polt arrived equipped with both a PowerPoint presentation and a Groma Kolibri, his vintage “laptop typewriter” made in East Germany in 1956. The antique machine – incidentally, the same model preferred by the writer Will Self – is stylish and durable, less of a prop than a symbol of an insurgency aided and abetted by Polt, author of The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist’s Companion for the 21st Century.

Source: http://www.amazon.com/Typewriter-Revolution-Typists-Companion-Century/dp/1581573111/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1449250977&sr=1-1&keywords=the+typewriter+revolution

<more at http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/30/the-typewriter-revolution-richard-polt-typosphere; rel;ated links: http://writingball.blogspot.com/ (Blog: The Typewriter Revolution. One Typist in the Twenty-first Century. December 2, 2015) and http://www.typewriterrevolution.com/ (The Typewriter Revolution)>