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I'm Clive Thompson, this is my tumblog: Things I haven't got time to blog, but need to remember.
Tue Sep 8
Is your handwriting going to hell in the age of the keyboard? Mine sure is. I’d always figured my horrible handwriting was the result of some deep moral flaw, but these authors argue — in this superbly graphically-crafted and thought-provoking New York Times op-ed piece — that the problem stems from the inherent limitations of “Palmer” cursive writing, which was intended to be beautiful but also slow and clumsy … a rough ergonomic analogue of the QWERTY keyboard.

Is your handwriting going to hell in the age of the keyboard? Mine sure is. I’d always figured my horrible handwriting was the result of some deep moral flaw, but these authors argue — in this superbly graphically-crafted and thought-provoking New York Times op-ed piece — that the problem stems from the inherent limitations of “Palmer” cursive writing, which was intended to be beautiful but also slow and clumsy … a rough ergonomic analogue of the QWERTY keyboard.