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Author(s)
Haldeman, Joe
Date Issued
December 2009
Journal
Communications of the ACM
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Citation
Haldeman, Joe. “Mightier than the pen.” Communications of the ACM, Vol. 52, issue 12 (Dec. 2009).
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Abstract
I’ve been a writer for 40 years, and my attitude toward writing machines has never been simple. Right now I’m sitting in a quiet one-room cabin in the Maine woods, writing in natural light with a fountain pen into a bound blank book. I could have done that in the 19th century—or 5,000 years ago, if you trade the fountain pen for a quill or stylus.
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MIT Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1145/1610252.1610279
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