Goodbye to the Typewriter

If you have a typewriter , cherish it, because it is officially a museum piece. The last typewriter factory left in the world, India's Godrej and Boyce, has just closed its doors .

Save yourself the attacks of nostalgia, evoking the sound of the keys and the progress of the car and the strange theory which linked to the romantic image of the writer or the journalist sitting in front of a waiting for the muse and inspiration: the typewriter was cumbersome and inefficient, writing on the screen provides many advantages over it, and normal, of course, was that the typewriter was completely or to become a sort of props. As is logical and normal to happen with many other technologies that have been relegated to the category obsolete.

Not worth making a play for it, or pretend to prolong the life of obsolete technologies through fees or grants without regard. The old technology is being replaced, leaving cultural footprints and legacies of different types of technologies that happen, and go quietly and with dignity to the museums. It is what it is. It's called progress, has been going on since the world began, and will continue to happen. However much some nostalgic endeavor.

UPDATE: It seems that the plant at Godrej and Boyce was not the last, according to some sources there are still manufacturers in China, Japan and Indonesia both machines and supplies for traders such as Swintec , residual markets that cater to special restrictions of use as :-) prisons