A century and a half ago, the age of the typewriter dawned in Australia.

Who was the first to import these new American gizmos? Would they cause the extinction of handwriting? 

Would typewriters increase efficiency or simply empower people to churn out rubbish?

How many parallels are there to the modern push for AI?

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