So I'm high, feeling old, and watching sci-fi. Naturally I think this:
The kids that are babies right now, may never actually write on paper in school at all. At least 90% less than we did. Strange thought right?
When I left high school, we only had maybe 40 computers available for students to use. For some reason I can't remember if I wrote or typed papers that were 100% my writing, like reports and summaries. Going to the computer labs was a huge thing and you could only get in them if the class went as a whole. Like a field trip to the other side of the building. I don't even know what it is like now, but it can't be like that. I'll bet it is like my labs and classes that I take now, 7 or 8 computers in every room.
Kids don't even pass notes in class anymore because they all have cell phones. Something else that has changed since I was in school. I remember I was one of like ten people who had cell phones and it was confiscated twice just for having them in the building. I'll bet by the time these kids get to school they will all have their own computers which will eliminate writing all together. Except of course for when they learn to do it, which leads to my next question.
Will we forget how to write?
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