The dwindling end of the street typists

This makes — or made — perfect sense for India, a place where human labor remains amazingly cheap. Why learn to type yourself, or buy a typewriter, when you can have someone else type it for you?  Most colleges in the US used to have much the same service business crop up (albeit less ubiquitous) for students.

It seems to me the change occurring is not so much in the advent of the computer per se  (or else these guys would be shifting over into keyboarding) as their customers gaining more knowledge and access to computers, and the general decline of printed documents as a standard thing.

Reshared post from +George Wiman

Street typists? I had no idea.