The Typewriter

The typewriter is a writer's best friend. It's his partner for whatever accomplishment he needs to be done. Typewriters are a thing of the past. It is the ancestor of the modern computer.

The computer is man's greatest gift to humanity (thanks Bill Gates for coming up with Windows!). It had made things simpler, efficient and effective. It had minimized the use of paper use which had contributed to the depletion of forest lands, had lessened the noise typing makes and most of all, it gave our fingers a lighter touch on the keyboard. No more frustrations with erasers and paper fluids (white ink), having neat and well edited paper works.

In a third world country like the Philippines, typewriters are still in use in a lot of private and government offices. It is considered as the cheapest form of creating documents. This reason may have bearing to its purpose, but it seems not able to justify on how far the typewriter can compare itself to the computer and printer. It is far behind what the computer and printer can do. It is a symbol of the past that needs to be changed. It is a sign of incompetence, a sign of no progress at all.

Typewriters in government offices need to be shelved, or better yet, placed inside a museum to remind us and our future generations on how our predecessors handled their paper works.

Lets give the typewriter a break it deserves. Let us give our country a favor by upgrading our system from an old inefficient typewriting system to an efficient and more effective computer network system.