The link below takes you to a great slide show from Slate.com that shows many fine examples of how technology used to embrace wood as a useful and beautiful material.
Fantastic Typing Machines – A Gallery of Old Typewriters.
Below are a couple of extras I like from Wikimedia Commons.
Sure the golden age of the typewriter has passed by, but don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Wood is still a fine material and tech should continue to embrace it.
David