If you see a dusty old typewriter hanging around in a charity shop window then snap it up and give it a loving home because the once essential piece of technology is set to get a whole let rarer after Godrej & Boyce (Mumbai, India), the world’s last remaining typewriter factory has closed down.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that typewriters weren't made anywhere, anymore anyway, but they had remained reasonably popular in India where certain areas did not have much computer access. But as the country developed and began to adapt to Western tchnology, the iconic typewriter lost favour and now it is gone forever leaving budding authors with Mac Books and coffee instead of the classic typewriter and cigarette duo, like the good old days.
In saying that, there's something attractively romantic about the quill too, but nobody is going to write up their work report or college essay with one. The whole point of technology is to make our life easier which is why the computer keyboard combination prevailed as soon as it became affordable.
But even the keyboard as we know it is under threat now as we go touch-screen mad. The good old QWERTY started with the typewriter and moved onto the computer keyboard and now it's virtual but will it even survive or will we begin to replace it with a new way of typing? Only time will tell, but with features like predictive text the future of the keyboard isn't too bright.