There is one column you can count on virtually every newspaper columnist in America to write sooner or later — a column lamenting the demise of manual typewriters. It’s a natural. All of us grew up ...

I grew up on a manual typewriter, the same one my mom used to write articles for Life Magazine in the ’50s and ’60s. It was a small portable in a beat-up canvas case, and you had to hit the keys hard.

Last fall, I brought my 1918 Royal manual typewriter into my Communicating Science to the Public class at MIT. I kept a box over the machine and unveiled it at the start of class as though revealing a ...

To answer my own headline question: to connect to the Internet! You can't get online using a typewriter (I tried but I just keep getting a "cannot connect to Internet" message on the ribbon). What I'm ...