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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: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday November 02 2016, @03:34PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday November 02 2016, @03:34PM (#421706)

    keyboards of any sort may be gone (or not) in another few years

    I highly doubt it, because the alternative is either less quick and less reliable on-screen keyboards, or "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all."

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