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Know how to read cursive? The National Archives wants you | Popular Science
Help transcribe over 200 years of historical documents. By Laura Baisas, Posted on Jan 16, 2025 The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau is seeking volunteer citizen archivists to help them classify and/or transcribe more than 200 years worth of hand-written historical documents. Most of…
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How Typewriters Changed Everything | JSTOR Daily
Voice recognition technology is beginning to compete with typing. Would the end of typing change the business world forever? “After decades of development, voice recognition technology is beginning to compete with typing when it comes to sending texts, interacting with computers, and even writing whole articles. The end of typing could shake things up, judging…
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The Death of Cursive Writing | Vitae
Sad and mostly true, I suspect.. not sure why we ever thought not teaching students to write down something *in their own handwriting* was not something they would need, in life.. Perhaps humans do not need to ever write anything down anymore, or read anyone else’s handwriting, now that we have *smartphones* 🙂 “But now…
