Plus I just wanted to get onto this thread because I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered...
prisoner6
"He has revolted. Resisted. Fought. Held fast. Maintained. Destroyed resistance.
Overcome coercion. The right to be a person, someone or individual. We applaud his private war, and concede that despite materialistic efforts, he has
survived intact and secure!"
:->
I have to question whether computers have improved typing skills, although they have definitely improved typing speed and results. I went to college and law school from 1961 through 1967 and typed a large number of academic papers during that time. The consequences for making a typo then were horrible--at the very least I had to stop, try to erase it or white it out, and then go on. That was if I was only working with a single sheet of paper. With a carbon pack each typo or misspelling required stopping and going through the entire pack to correct the error. That meant I was very careful not to make typos.
With a computer it's all different. A typo can be corrected instantly and almost effortlessly. A spell checker lets any of us get most of the typos without even a serious proof reading. Once the spell checker has done its work proof reading can catch most of the remaining errors. However, if you looked at this post before the spell check and proof reading, you'd see it was replete with errors, far more than a document I'd typed before word processors came along would have been.
In short, since modern word processing programs make fixing documents so easy, I concentrate on typing speed more than accuracy and let the computer fix the errors before I release a document.
That is because we want information...information...information...