First of all, there was an article about Hanx Writer just the other day. Yes, there ARE people who miss typewriters.
Secondly, the word processor does countless things the typewriter cannot do, and does so with an order of magnitude more speed.
The automatic transmission does nothing a manual transmission cannot do (from the end user perspective), other than being ever so slightly less effort, and perhaps a few milliseconds faster in gearchange, which does not matter unless perhaps you are being paid for how fast you can get to the grocery store.
Freed of the tyranny of having to use your left foot for a clutch, what is it that you accomplish while driving an automatic that you could not before?
Secondly, the word processor does countless things the typewriter cannot do, and does so with an order of magnitude more speed.
The automatic transmission does nothing a manual transmission cannot do (from the end user perspective), other than being ever so slightly less effort, and perhaps a few milliseconds faster in gearchange, which does not matter unless perhaps you are being paid for how fast you can get to the grocery store.
Freed of the tyranny of having to use your left foot for a clutch, what is it that you accomplish while driving an automatic that you could not before?