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I write for a living, so I spend 6–8 hours every day staring at my screen while typing away. Oftentimes, this number gets stretched primarily due to endless distractions thrown at me by the internet.

Back in the early '90s, a study was conducted on how personal computing machines would impact student writing. On IBM, 50% of students produced "complex sentences" compared to Macintosh's 30%. In an ...