if handwriting had been manual and male, typewriting was fingerprinting: fast, tactile, digital, and female…text was no longer in the grasp of the hand and eye, but guided by contacts and keystrokes, a matter of touch sensitivity. an activity which had once been concentrated on a tight nexus of coordinated organs—hand and eye—and a single instrument—the pen—was now processed through a distributed digital machinery composed of fingers, keys, hammers, platterns, carriages, levers, cogs, and wheels.
sadie plant, zeros and ones: digital women and the new technoculture, 1997 (via karaj)