There's definitely a growing awareness for these kinds of things. People younger than you and me often no longer know how to write by hand. But are we just playing out one technology for another technology? How much hyperattention versus deep attention does this bring in cognition? What happens if we do give ourselves the benefit of the doubt and say, okay, maybe there is something more human about handwriting?"
In this episode, Mike Gathers chats with Sascha Engel about the themes of his book, Breaking the Alphabet and the tyranny of the written word.
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