I fall into the tea camp, and it is sensory, but it isn't specifically tactile and it isn't specifically a tool of the art. So I see what you mean.
But if they developed a technology of direct download from brain to narrative sometime in the future, people might look back with nostalgia on the buzzes and whirrs of the computer booting up, the feel of the mouse in hand as you clicked through to the last file, the phosphor visual of the glowing screen, the feel of the plastic keys under your fingers, the ritual of opening the new document and formatting the page numbers or whatever it is you have to do in preparation for committing words.
And maybe the guy cutting his quill and sanding his vellum thought wistfully about the days when storytelling started with a group gathering at a hearth, the smell of woodsmoke and food cooking...
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But if they developed a technology of direct download from brain to narrative sometime in the future, people might look back with nostalgia on the buzzes and whirrs of the computer booting up, the feel of the mouse in hand as you clicked through to the last file, the phosphor visual of the glowing screen, the feel of the plastic keys under your fingers, the ritual of opening the new document and formatting the page numbers or whatever it is you have to do in preparation for committing words.
And maybe the guy cutting his quill and sanding his vellum thought wistfully about the days when storytelling started with a group gathering at a hearth, the smell of woodsmoke and food cooking...