Sunday, May 30, 2010

Unlearning whether human beings to write thanks to computer?

Write ! Never! I mean creativity. Forget how to create new works, scientific works; poetry of humanity simply can not. 

And how to keep within that volcanic energy that's just tearing out? This refers to a piece of paper on which a pen or pencil is written somewhere address, phone number or a few sentences to a friend. I put it symbolically. This piece of paper can be a notebook, and a whole commonplace book, where its owner has a blog or a detailed accounting of its financial activities. 

All this can now be done using a computer. Instead of recorded gnarled hand of personal data, business people are increasingly using business cards. They carefully thought out in advance and every stroke. They derive a good printer and immediately attracted attention for its accuracy and legible characters. They were pleased to hold in your hand and conveniently to hand. Imagine the situation: winter, you're in a coat, gloves, and you just need to give a man her phone number and address of the office. You are shooting gloves, eagerly looking for a pen (and at that moment for a long time it can not find), pulls out a notebook sheet. Extremely uncomfortable and dreary. Do you agree? And having a business card, enough to stretch it, and no problems. 

Keep a diary, write a report or statement is also the most convenient to right on your computer. If you do first hand-written version - this is double work. Printed text will understand everything, but the handwriting ... handwriting is all different. Even it’s sometimes difficult to understand, but what about someone else? 

At work, I often had to take handwritten notes, which I then gently placed on the disc, so as not to become entangled with scraps of paper. So, I sometimes three times or had to approach the man or call him to find out what number he had in mind and what is meant by the obscure style. 

I myself any information, even the most insignificant, try typing on the keyboard instead of using a pen. It happens naturally. I'm much more comfortable because I feel comfortable! And once I used notebooks. I especially liked in the cell. Why? Do not know. They are at once pulled to creativity. I wanted something in them to write neatly. Now notebooks - only if necessary. Still, the information you need from them, I transferred to a computer. 

I am sure that a similar transformation is happening to many. Especially writing hand is much slower than typing the printed text. And no prospects of acceleration. My hand is tired. The keyboard can learn to introduce hundreds of characters in a minute. Good help can be with ten blind methods. There are many programs to learn it yourself. And his hands in a particular installation are not tired, at least for some time. 

Children who have not yet learned to write, already stretched to the computer: grab the mouse, click buttons. They grew up they became even more detached from the writing hand, than we are now. So the question arises, whether it makes sense to learn to drive a pen on paper? Is not it better just to sit at the keyboard? Anyway, many jobs, abstracts are accepted only in printed form. Of course, the process will develop naturally and gradually. May soon be written work will be some individual minor matter, but May, in general, become electives if desired. 

Once the first-graders began writing fountain pen. I remember well what anguish had to carry the ink. Teachers say that it is necessary not to spoil the script. Because we have moved from the pen ink. Does this mean that with a computer, we just get away from fountain pens? On the recording arm now come from two sides, two solid monsters: personal computers and mobile phones, where possible, catching up with the computer and begins to perform the same function. 

For a certain time I began to notice that experience difficulties when writing something by hand. It is easier to type text on the machine, and then print. Any note or even a commonplace book can easily be lost, to take place in some secluded corner of the apartment and did not stay long. I remember being delighted when I suddenly found a cardboard box with his youthful poems. But then the joy of a few darkens. The same volume of a box, I was not able to find... 

In computer store information much easier and simpler: to copy to the magnetic media and keep a copy on another machine. And if you do not trust either drives or technique, you can store files on the Internet. Let's sprawling system will be ruined, portable drives, but you can always restore it by going to the World Network. 

The conclusion is clear - the keyboard is much safer and more comfortable pen. 

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