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on Wednesday November 02 2016, @08:33AM
from the heading-for-a-new-dark-age dept.
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: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 02 2016, @12:43PM
You forgot "eliminating daylight savings time" and "new fangled keyboard X."
I hypothesize that entomophagy is an attempt at mass indoctrination, much the same way as the recent media with transgender has been. Why would someone want to mass indoctrinate the public on those two issues? No idea. Perhaps it's to see if they can. But 99.999999999999999% of humans don't wake up in the morning thinking, "You know what I could really go for? A big heaping bowl of squirming mealworms..." and when hopping in the shower they don't look down and think to themselves, "Hmm, I'd really rather have an [ Innie | Outie ]."
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 02 2016, @12:48PM
Cheap protein. Save the beef for the 1% who "deserve it" more than us proles.
Don't overlook competition. Its a progressive pissing contest to see which journalism grad can get more people to love eating bugs. That loser only got 30K clicks on his bug story I'm gonna get 40K clicks at least.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 02 2016, @01:43PM
You might have something there. I would guess the competition is between publishers, though, more than the journalists. It's probably from bets they made at cocktail parties on the New York/Washington party circuit.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by julian on Wednesday November 02 2016, @07:21PM
Adam Curry, why don't you post here under your real name? I know you're a borderline paranoid schizophrenic one notch below Alex Jones level retarded but you'll fit right in here!
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 02 2016, @12:58PM
If all communication were done electronically, there would be no need for handwriting. But there are many times, even in the age of smartphones, when it is essential to be able to produce written communication that others can read. That's true even for adults.
For kids, it's still true in most school districts, where they don't provide kids with tablets and computers for all their in-class and at-home work. Right now, they're in an in-between place where they are expected to do everything with paper-and-pencil, but no one teaches them how to write legibly so all their output is illegible scrawls.
I have come to think that there's an ancillary effect to this trend. We discuss it often in the context of FLOSS, of locked-down hardware, and the like, in that the more people are prevented from creating on their own, the more controllable they are. How can you learn if you can't take things apart and see how they work? How can you really compose new thoughts when autocomplete is there, jumping ahead of you and filling in the words you should be writing, for you? How can people be allowed to generate data or thoughts that aren't instantly scannable by the NSA and indexable by Google? Cannot happen! So, let's train everyone to mentally develop within a very small box, like psychic veal, so that they cannot fall prey to WrongThink or, worse, UnprofitableThink.
Washington DC delenda est.