The End of Handwriting by Angela Watercutter

When so much of that thinking can be offloaded to AI, going analog begins to look like one of the only ways to test comprehension, fairness be damned. After all, previous kinds of technology—like graphing calculators—also forced teachers to make kids write things out longhand. Literally showing one’s work, in writing, became the way students evinced that they understood what the machines did. As AI creeps into schoolwork, handwriting won’t die so much as, once again, provide proof of life.

I have not handwritten anything since I left college. Till that point we were writing mostly on paper.

I did not have beautiful handwriting. I prefer typing to writing. The ideas matter.