Monday, March 2, 2009

A Novel Idea

Someone should invent a keyboard that doesn't connect to the internet.

It could revolutionize the writing process by keeping the writer focused on the task at hand, rather than allowing her to go falling down the spider hole of the web. . . email, facebook, skimming the surface of oceans of content, like, say, a surfer, but unlike a surfer not finding the shore. Drowning instead.

And think of all the inefficiency involved in printing, once you finally manage to get a document written on the computer. It take so many steps, and so much time! You must hit CTRL-P, select your options, hit ENTER, wait for the data to stream wirelessly through the ether to the printing device, wait for its slow printing of an entire page. . . consider instead a conceptual device that would print as you type. . . A keyboard, that, instead of translating keystrokes to ones and zeros and re-translating them into recognizable letters on screen, might instead be more direct - a keystroke might generate an actual printed letter on an actual sheet of paper. . .

We could call it a "typeprinter" or something similar. Market it as a new productivity tool.

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