Yes, Richard Brautigan's most well-known poem. Brautigan was a poet to the hippie generation. His book "Trout Fishing in America" was everywhere in the late 60's. It's interesting to re-read "All watched over by machines of loving grace" and see how Brautigan anticipated AI, possibly influenced by McLuhan. I don't think Brautigan was thinking of typewriters when he wrote this line.

You are probably right.

But on the other hand, olivetti brought out the first personal computer in the mid 60's. And of course olivetti did research into a.i. So it is not too far to see the (if imagined) link.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti

Could be. Thanks for the reference.