Nietzsche became “an inscription surface” for the typewriter and famously typed "our writing tools are also working on our thoughts." This meaning is that when we use a typewriter, as when we now use a smartphone, at one level we are inscribing information onto paper or a screen; but at another level the device is inscribing ways of thinking on us.
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