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Quills required single smooth flows of the nib; printing would have caused far too many blots and smudges. However, long before pencils or ballpoint pens, there was carving in stone and Gutenberg’s printing press. The typewriter also came into being back in the late 1800s.

Sam Altman claims that the AI device that OpenAI is currently building with famed Apple designer Jony Ive is actually a family of devices, and teased that they will likely not include a key component used by nearly every other smart device.