The Right Typing on a Typerwriter

Everything in the world has been working against me for the past week, but I finally am getting out my post (more to come for this week, too).

I found the Gitelman readings to be quite engaging. Perhaps a reason for this is her seemingly casual and obtuse references to the paranormal in relation to new technology. Specifically, she talks about seances and typewriters. It was really this more than anything that stuck with me. I began to think about remote viewing. If you don't know what that is, it's basically the concept of using clairvoiance to see the goings on at another perhaps inaccessible location. I was fishing for a tie to the readings, but I think that for me the tie came during our class discussion.

We talked about the idea of obsolete technology. Why is it that some things are destined to fail, regardless of their merits, while other technologies succeed? Disbelief aside, imagine if remote viewing was proven to be a legitimate "technology." It seems to me as if there would be initial shock that something like that was possible, but after a while it would tone down into a common commodity. This is not unlike the life of the typewriter. It was initially a rather astounding technology, but it eventually diminished into a rather unremarkable staple of modern society (well... even less so with the advent of the word processor).

So yeah.