https://www.scmp.com/rss/323810/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com It’s 1950 in Communist China, and you want to type a letter. You lean over a metal tray about the size of a sheet cake. Instead of keys, the tray is filled with tiny pieces of metal type. You manoeuvre a knob on a lever across the tray until it hovers over the piece you want. Press the lever, and with a thwunk the piece leaps up from the tray, strikes an ink pad, then pounds the paper mounted above the appliance. Now begins your hunt for the next piece. You have about 2,500 to choose from. This... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2059254/predictive-text-robbing-us-our-ability-write?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2059254/predictive-text-robbing-us-our-ability-write?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Jan 2017 22:30:45 +0000