Today’s idea: Handwriting is dying because it’s a slow and inefficient way of getting our thoughts out — a hindrance to thinking, given the alternatives, an essay says.
Culture | “When a new writing technology develops, we tend to romanticize the older one,” writes Anne Trubek in Miller-McCune magazine. “Thus for monks, print was capricious and script reliable. So too today: Conventional wisdom holds that computers are devoid of emotion and personality, and handwriting is the province of intimacy, originality and authenticity.”
