That guy with poor handwriting

I often wonder if we are slowly progressing towards the death of pen and paper.

With the ever-changing landscape of communication and the pace of consumption, multiple forms like audio and video have taken over largely. All things machine is a faster and efficient way of accomplishing every little task. As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, doesn’t that raise the question of where that leaves things written with pen and paper?

As an average student with average grades, I was always judged based on my poor handwriting. Like, very poor. Also, that my ability to draw diagrams and pictures was the same as that of the world-renowned painter, which only a few understood (sarcasm!). The interesting thing now is, if I were a kid with a bad handwriting but used machines instead of pen and paper, would that make me a good student? Perhaps not!

This raises a larger question for kind of grading system there is and the kind of upgrade it needs. What is digital transformation worth, if it can't be adopted at the very root of where everything begins, i:e education!

My biased view is that pen and paper will find its way to museums in another 50 to 100 years or that it is my secret desire, who knows! After all I am just a guy with extremely poor handwriting and such extreme views ??