Robot writing apps

Posted by Amontillado
Nov 15, 2022 at 12:39 PM

Iron gall on vellum was so much nicer than cuneiform on clay. Then came the bittersweet moment when geese celebrated keeping their feathers the day we traded quills for fountain pens. We, least of all the geese, failed to recognize the noble goose lost a little bit of meaning in life.

So eagerly we traded typewriters for word processors, heedless of the nascent brain within the machine, brooding in eight bits then 16, 32 then 64, and soon in dark, inscrutable quantum energies.

And just as eagerly our word processors will set writers aside as casually as we discarded Windows for Workgroups.

Be the goose, it’s our only hope. Cherish the organic pain that begets the quill and hence the written word.

PS - Quick shout-out to spell checkers. I misspelled “inscrutable.” Automated processes overseeing every word I write caught the error, saving my embarrassment.

Gotta love spell checkers. I’m only human!