http://freakonomics.com/podcast/who-needs-handwriting/ http://freakonomics.com/podcast/who-needs-handwriting/ This podcast I believe is pretty objective. Sets u

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/who-needs-handwriting/ http://freakonomics.com/podcast/who-needs-handwriting/ This podcast I believe is pretty objective. Sets up some of the virtues of handwriting, discusses that cursive is faster than print, but shorthand is even faster, and that faster isn't very helpful, so slower is maybe better because it forces reflection, and idea solidification. personally the argument, our kids can't read the declaration of independence and other historical documents, is just silly. All of these documents are available in a hundred different languages, rendered in any font your heart desires. if our dystopian future hinges on apparently having the original declaration of independence in hand, and the issue is that we are unable to read it because we no longer know cursive, then there are worse things going on. Namely that we are apparently living in a Michael Bay -esque ridiculous coincidence universe. ahhh watch out for that giant robot car whose ex-con mechanic with a heart of gold used to be an ex cia agent who is the only one who can save us. and his ex-wife's boss is the leader of the bad guys, but maybe is a good guy?