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cmn32480
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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @11:07PM
You can read all of those online, in print.
And yes, there is value in being able to read the original documents.
Unless you can provide an objective reason that reading the original documents is inherently better than reading copies of said documents written/typed in print, I don't buy it. What matters is the content.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03 2016, @03:54PM