Also, even in the future, the power will go off once in awhile. Hand-writing would be like swimming. Not necessarily used much, but a skill worth keeping.
The level of training you need for basic swimming is only a couple hours. The teaching for handwriting is a lot more than that.
Anyone who uses the latin alphabet will have the character shapes memorized, so I'm sure they'd do just fine for emergency use even if they'd basically never written before.
That said, a huge amount of handwriting curriculum is actually motor skills practice, and that's pretty important!
Handwriting small notes in a meeting is less obtrusive than hauling out a laptop or thumbing a phone. I carry a 3.5 by 5.5 inch Cahier and a Spacepen at all times. If I need to write more extensively, I use one of my fountain pens.
It's also free-form. If I want to include a sketch or some math, it's easy.
Dylan16807|3 years ago
Anyone who uses the latin alphabet will have the character shapes memorized, so I'm sure they'd do just fine for emergency use even if they'd basically never written before.
That said, a huge amount of handwriting curriculum is actually motor skills practice, and that's pretty important!
wrycoder|3 years ago
It's also free-form. If I want to include a sketch or some math, it's easy.