Who would have thought that reading about handwriting could be so enjoyable? Lexicographer Neil Serven writes about how handwriting has changed over his lifetime, with pencils and pens giving way to keyboards and touchscreens. "They say, handwriting is going the way of the dodo. I don’t think that’s precisely true—it sounds like one of those lazy assumptions about technology, that it exists to flatten, to eliminate anything that brings a tactile, objective permanence. It may be, rather, that the objective has changed. Now we handwrite because we want to, not because we have to."
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Who would have thought that reading about handwriting could be so enjoyable? Lexicographer Neil Serven writes about how handwriting has changed over his lifetime, with pencils and pens giving way to keyboards and touchscreens. "They say, handwriting is going the way of the dodo. I don’t think that’s precisely true—it sounds like one of those lazy assumptions about technology, that it exists to flatten, to eliminate anything that brings a tactile, objective permanence. It may be, rather, that the objective has changed. Now we handwrite because we want to, not because we have to."