When I was very young I got a Disney book where Mickey and Donald Duck are in school. Donald tells Mickey they don’t need to learn to spell because when they grow up they’ll be able to buy typewriters. Donald thought that typewriters would automatically correct any spelling mistakes.
Well, as a legal secretary in the early 1990s… I had to type things in triplicate (pressure printed on my typewriter…)
I’ll go further back in the Wayback Machine.
When I was very young I got a Disney book where Mickey and Donald Duck are in school. Donald tells Mickey they don’t need to learn to spell because when they grow up they’ll be able to buy typewriters. Donald thought that typewriters would automatically correct any spelling mistakes.