evidence: The typewriter, to be sure, came well after the creation of the printing press, which had an enormous influence on the church. The first Western printing press – developed in Germany, in 1450, by Johannes Gutenberg – led to the first mass production of books, and is regarded as one of the most influential events in human history. [...] Bill reminded me that author Ernest Hemingway, who gave us "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "The Old Man in the Sea," liked to say when asked about his writing process, "There is nothing to it. [...] Yet for many others, the looming obsolescence of the typewriter is something to be mourned.