I'm A Southpaw. Do You Still Handwrite?
I'm a leftie; a southpaw. Handwriting. You do know how to write by hand, don't you? Is it a dying art?
Analogue. Digital. Human. Robot. Transhumanism. Artificial intelligence which is arguably not intelligent, but a human programmed computerised system. Computer models. Imperial College, Neil Ferguson and covid984. Shit in? Shit out!
I have educated, indeed, highly educated, Oxford and Cambridge educated, friends with appalling handwriting. I’ve maintained a hand written diary for 50 years. I’m left handed at writing, drawing and painting, though I can paint with my right hand to a lesser ability; especially with a pallet knife. Indeed, I can handwrite with my right hand very slowly and in need of much improvement. My strongest football kick is right-footed, I play tennis with my right hand, my snooker cue is pushed by my right hand and I think I’m right handed at cricket. I’m not into cricket. I try to clean my teeth with both right and left hands, believing it exercises both sides of my brain. I use a liquorice root stick, not that it matters for left or right hand considerations.
Is handwriting going to become passé; a thing of the past? I guess there was a time, the 1700’s, 1800’s, when handwriting, and I suppose reading, were not so widespread. Random search engine link:
https://www.vletter.com/help/font-faq/history-of-handwriting.html
I use capital letters, full stops and commas in text messages. I have never, thus far, used an emoji or emicon. I loathe them. They seem soulless. I’ve never written the abbreviation for ‘lots of laughs’, not used chatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) https://chat.openai.com/auth/login nor spoken to a computer like Siri.
There was a moment in 2018 when Jo Johnson, brother of Bollox Johnson, had a mishap live on BBC Question Time as his mobile phone ‘Siri’ kicked in.
https://skwawkbox.org/2018/04/13/video-tory-minister-johnson-exposed-receiving-wired-answers-on-bbcqt/
I even illustrated it for the UK Column.
Some think we are destined for a digital artificial intelligent world. I’m not convinced. The UK Column’s Alex Thomson and his pals are also sceptical.
Where there’s no will, there’s no way: Why artificial intelligence will never rule the world—Transcribed
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/where-theres-no-will-theres-no-way-why-artificial-intelligence-will-never-rule-the-world
https://odysee.com/@ukcolumn:9/WheretheresnowilltheresnowayWhyartificialintelligencewillneverruletheworld:2
Previous:
https://nedpamphilon.substack.com/p/long-codswallop
If we just take the handwriting and discuss that; both my parents were and my Dad still has the most beautiful and eloquent of handwriting .. my Grandparents too. Mine was OK, until I got older, but more a slanted squall than the beauty of my parents ... my daughters fantastic and beautiful, my Son's looks like a pig sty has had a collective dump on the paper.
With computers, laptops (if different) and smart texts... so many people are losing the ability to think and write... guess that is all part of the plan hey ?.
PS Notice across the US, UK and EU, they are eradicating the likes of mail services... because everything must be digitalised; so they can read, track and trace etc...