LISNews: Librarian News

A century from now our handwriting may be legible only to experts. The author of a book on the history of handwriting says that handwriting is declining so fast that ordinary, joined-up script may become as hard to read as a medieval manuscript. “When your great-great-grandchildren find that letter of yours in the attic, they’ll have to take it to a specialist, an old guy at the library who would decipher the strange symbols for them,” she says.

The article closes with this comment. “Our descendants may struggle to read our letters, but they’ll never even see most of our texts and e-mails.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7907888.stm