Techtonic with Mark Hurst is a weekly radio show from WFMU about technology, how it's affecting us, and what we can do about it.

Apr 15, 2024: Richard Polt, author, "The Typewriter Revolution"

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The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist’s Companion for the 21st Century, by Richard Polt

typewriterrevolution.com, the book site

Richard’s blog, also called The Typewriter Revolution

Typewriting Behavior, by Dvorak keymap inventor August Dvorak et al (1936), hosted at the Internet Archive

Ed Park on typewriters (November 2023) – Richard's blog post mentioning novelist Ed Park and our Techtonic interview

The Classic Typewriter Page

Harry Stephen Keeler Society, dedicated to the work of a novelist who wrote “literature that tenaciously disregards convention to form its own bizarre criteria of excellence.”

California Typewriter, the documentary that features Richard Polt (as well as Tom Hanks and others)
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Apr 15, 2024