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Within the digital age of instant communication, handwriting is less necessary than previously, and indeed fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to create in cursive. Signatures - far from John Hancock's elegant model - have grown to be scrawls. In her recent and generally discussed and debated essays, Anne Trubek argues that the decrease and even removal of handwriting from daily life does not sign a decrease in civilization, but instead the next stage in the advancement of communication. Now, in The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting, Trubek uncovers the long and significant impact handwriting has already established on culture and humanity - from the first saved handwriting on the clay tablets of the Sumerians some four thousand years back and the technology of the alphabet as we realize it, to the increasing value of handwritten manuscripts today. Each technology over the millennia has threatened existing expectations and entrenched pursuits: Indeed, in early Athens, Socrates and his fans decried the use of handwriting, saying memory space would be ruined; while Gutenberg's producing press finally overturned the livelihood of the monks who created literature in the pre-printing age. And yet new ways of writing and communication have always came out. Establishing a novel link between our profound past and emerging future, Anne Trubek offers a colourful lens through which to view our shared communal experience.
