The caliber of musician you can get to go out to a subway at 2 a.m. and play for hooligans isn't great... Now, if they could get Yo-Yo Ma...

The humans should have known their chances of getting their hands on "unobtanium" were pretty meagre to begin with... :)

The person who buys this is unlikely to use it, but having a typewriter that was an instrument of creation for famous works is like having a guitar played by Hendrix at Woodstock or a pen used to sign the Declaration of Independence.

This typewriter was used for every single book by the author. Pretty amazing!

Computer/typewriter/inkwell/chisel—it's not what it is, it is who used it and for making what and for how long.

I would really love to have one of these songs (I often use musically esoteric materials in my classroom). The article doesn't mention what the music was. Anyone know? From other sources?

Well, if the only way to save the world is for all of us to become Texan Vegetarians, I think I'd rather let the world devolve to Buy N Large and let WALL-E clean it up...