Antique Typewriters on the Come Back!
Wayne Pierce-Sep-13-2014
I still have a manual Smith Corona typewriter and I don’t know how I ever had the strength in my fingers to produce anything on that machine.(EUGENE, Ore. ) - Hang onto your old typewriters because they are coming back. After whistle blower Edward Snowden leaked information about the NSA’s massive spying program, computer users worldwide were faced with the dilemma of knowing that everything they did on the Internet was an open book and being monitored by the US government.
Assuming American leaders are capable of being embarrassed, most embarrassing for Obama was when Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel learned that the US government had been tapping her cell phone conversations for six years. Other government leaders joined in this outcry against the NSA’s spying on them and their governments.
In one of her responses about US government spying, Chancellor Merkel told the world that her secret service people were returning to the use of manual typewriters for communication.
