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I remember being enthralled by the IBM Selectrics with film ribbons that could make errors vanish with the Back Delete key. Magic!

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My inbox is totally out of control, and I pay for too damn many Substacks, so I was tempted to read the first couple of lines of this then hit delete.

That would have been a huge mistake. Top quality writing Dave!

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My God, the manual carriage return, how could I have forgotten!

As for the AI topic you've written about... I'm reminded of the homeless compounds in For All Mankind, where the innovations that NASA sold to the world provided benefits but at an apparently heavy social cost...

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