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To: discostu
Cursive was useful within a certain cost-benefit situation. Today it costs more to develop than it returns ~ and, it may interfere with time needed to develop a great deal of skill with keyboards and control units.

We know that eventually someone will work out a "remote" that allows us to think to control and we'll dispense with keyboards and control units.

I would imagine such a device will allow us to write in whatever cursive we need. I will use German script of the early 1800s ~ even people of that time were unable to read it well.

159 posted on 07/07/2011 4:49:33 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

I don’t think cursive was ever actually useful. The best you could ever really hope to get out of your cursive is that your cursive would be so pretty that someone would be impressed and if they were superficial enough would like you because of your pretty hand writing. It’s not faster than printing, it’s not easier than printing, for most people it’s not more legible than printing, it really has always been only useful as a simple substitute for calligraphy.

Thought control will never happen. People are too scatter brained. They’d be there thinking their dictation and then a hot chick shows up on TV then all of a sudden “holy crap are those real” winds up in their contract.


162 posted on 07/07/2011 7:31:59 PM PDT by discostu (Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn)
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