Link to Ian Bogost's article and fix his name spelling

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Contrary to popular belief, not every device is a smartphone. The Freewrite is what one could describe as "a typewriter for the 21st century". Designed to exude the same robustness and clickety feel of a typewriter, the Freewrite replaces paper and ribbons with a non-backlit e-paper screen (think ebook readers like Kindle and [Kobo](https://moddedbear.com/kobo-clara-bw-review/)). This results in a distraction-free device dedicated to writing, at the same time allowing one to interact with today's digital world. One of the Freewrite's two sturdy knobs lets you choose which file you want to edit; the other toggles the WiFi for syncing your documents to the cloud.
And—as reviewer Iain Bogost found out—when you use this device, it's clear what you are doing. "An open laptop is a Pandora's box," he writes. "What is its owner doing? Writing, or otherwise working? Watching porn? Wasting time on Facebook while you try to lecture or run a meeting?"
And—as reviewer Ian Bogost [found out](https://bogost.com/writing/the-future-of-writing-looks-like-the-past/)—when you use this device, it's clear what you are doing. "An open laptop is a Pandora's box," he writes. "What is its owner doing? Writing, or otherwise working? Watching porn? Wasting time on Facebook while you try to lecture or run a meeting?"
By contrast, the Freewrite "[situates] the writer in the world, while also making the writer's work transparent to any who would happen to look or wonder. And given that the device is small and light enough to take anywhere, that place could be anywhere—the armchair, the bed, the toilet, the terrace, the lawn. It signals that its user is *writing,* because it can do nothing else."