Typewriters & Laptops

I can't imagine myself writing a book 30 years ago when personal computers were still rare. When I did a BTheol at Auckland University (1993-1994) essays were written by hand and I only once paid a fellow student's friend to type an essay for me on her computer and it cost me NZD50.00 for a 3,000 word essay. Well, I guess by the time when I commenced my doctoral work at Otago University in 2000, it was all the craze that almost everyone owned a laptop.

Laptops have come far and when I was about to leave Singapore to return to Sabah in June 2014, I bought my first MacBook Air 11 inch exactly SGD1,000, the amount of gratuity I received from my College that I served for 6 years. If you think that gratuity was small, I am most grateful when I was paid bonus for my final 6 months (Jan-June 2014) and every December I was paid 13th month salary for every year's end for 6 years. So I am most grateful for the Lord's blessings, but since my time in Singapore was coming to an end, I converted to Apple and for more than 11 years consistently I have used a MacBook to type my essays, notes and now my books. 

For the past two weeks during which I had edited and revised my book countless times I can't imagine doing that over a typewriter of old, and now I just delete by the click of a mouse or track pad, and add whatever words I want, how many times I want. Life is so convenient in the 2nd quarter of the 21st century AD and I think in the next five years AI will be dominant in what and how we do things, even now you can ask AI on any thing, and the answer comes out as good as it could be.