Architect, educator, and sometime journalist Bruce Silverberg lives in San Luis Obispo, California, where he is on the full-time faculty of CuestArc, the architecture program at Cuesta College.Bruce learned touch-typing on a manual Royal FP typewriter, a model featuring that company's famous "magic margins," when he was in the ninth grade at a public school near Philadelphia. "Typing was a required course for all students on the college-preparatory track back then," Silverberg says. "They also taught me to write, in the hope that I might someday have something to say with my newly acquired skill!"
Bruce lives in San Luis Obispo and his contribution is the first from the Central Coast:
"There was a time when words mattered, when the effort expended to get something onto a page made writing less casual. Those were the days!"
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And happy faces are the future; discourse reduced to an agonizingly slow death, delivered by a finite array of emoticons, plastic cartooned dialogue.
ReplyDeleteA poster inspired by this quote. I love what Typing in Public is about, and how this quote captures it for me.
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