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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday November 02 2016, @08:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the heading-for-a-new-dark-age dept.

The New Yorker wonders:

My children know how to print their letters. And they type frighteningly well. Still, I can't escape the conviction that cursive—writing it and knowing how to read it—represents some universal value. I'm not the only one who thinks so. Every year, there are worried articles about the decline of cursive and its omission from school curricula. And there's a backlash, one that I secretly cheer for. When I read that Washington state is now considering Senate Bill 6469, "an act related to requiring that cursive writing be taught in common schools," I gave a little fist pump in the air.

Cursive and handwriting are dead. Communication of the future will be done with pure emoticons.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @10:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @10:45AM (#421572)

    I was brought up on a single BBC Micro in the back of a classroom, about 2 in the school, and now manage the IT in a school with thousands of devices each of unimaginable speed and capacity for 7-year-old me.

    Yeah, I remember when I had the ZX Spectrum with a nice 256x192 graphics resolution (of course only 176 pixels vertically were accessible by the BASIC commands, as the two lower text lines — 8 pixels high each — were reserved for input) and two colours (out of 16 total, but either only bright or only non-bright colours, as one bit was needed to hold the blinking attribute) per 8x8 block. At one time I thought about what resolution would be great to have, and finally arrived at the idea of 1024x768 with I don't remember how many colours, independent for each point (at least enough colours to consume at least a full byte, maybe several; I remember that different pixels wouldn't have shared any bytes). Then I realized how much memory you would need just to hold the image, and thought "no, that's never going to happen." ;-)