Surveys indicate 40% of Gen Z has difficulty writing by hand, and an even higher percentage cannot read cursive writing. What are we losing?

Christine Rosen:

But we lose something when handwriting disappears. We lose measurable cognitive skills, and we also lose the pleasure of using our hands and a writing implement in a process that for thousands of years has allowed humans to make our thoughts visible to one another. We lose the sensory experience of ink and paper and the visual pleasure of the handwritten word. We lose the ability to read the words of the dead.

Handwritten letters of Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Michelangelo Buonarroti