But with the machine, when you're writing on a typewriter, you're just writing on a typewriter. It does one thing really, really well. I tell people all the time, typewriter is a machine that writes. A computer is a machine that happens to write.

We have lostthe tools of learning—the axe and the wedge, the hammer and the saw, thechisel and the plane—that were so adaptable to all tasks. Instead of them, wehave merely a set of complicated jigs, each of which will do but one task andno more, and in using which eye and hand receive no training, so that no manever sees the work as a whole or “looks to the end of the work.”