by the pundits. They thought, however, that it might be of use 
to authors, clergymen, and telegraph operators. Even 
newspapers were lukewarm about this machine for some time.

     Once any part of the economy feels a step-up in pace, the 
rest of the economy has to follow suit. Soon, no business could 
be indifferent to the greatly increased pace set by the 
typewriter. It was the telephone, paradoxically, that sped the 
commercial adoption of the typewriter. The phrase “Send me a 
memo on that,” repeated into millions of phones daily, helped 
to create the huge expansion of the typist function. Northcote 
Parkinson’s law that “work expands so as to fill the time 
available for its completion” is precisely the zany dynamic 
provided by the telephone. In no time at all, the telephone 
expanded the work to be done on the typewriter to huge 
dimensions. Pyramids of paperwork rise on the basis of a small