The Typing is On the Wall

My third grade teacher regularly made me stay after school to improve my horrible penmanship. The weird thing was that she always made me do these after school assignments up at the chalkboard. When I suggested that it didn’t really make sense for me to practice cursive at the chalkboard when what she really wanted was for my pen-to-paper handwriting to improve, I was invited to stay even longer after school. These days, I never have to use cursive, on paper or on the chalkboard, but I still type with two fingers. Wired: The End of Handwriting. “For years, smartphones and computers have threatened to erase writing by hand. Would that be so bad?” (I jotted down an answer to that question in my notes, but now I can’t read what I wrote.)