IBM Selectric

  • Lost art of typing

    The BBC has a piece on Japan Love Affair with the Fax Machine. Older population has gotten used to that technology (which allows for hand-writing). For years, I have used email except for  Thank-you notes in writing. I can reasonably predict that even typing (as we know it) will be a lost art (speech recognition will…

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  • When lunching near Dulles Airport  years ago, we ran into some Teleglobe colleagues who had gone over to AOL. Back then, I looked at those guys with a bit of envy. After all, we were just a voice backbone. Those guys were in their honeymoon with Time Warner, both pipe and pipe dream. Now, this…

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