Anne Trubek

press release: Community Room 301 Today, our grocery and to-do lists live on our smart phones, and it’s rare that we pick up a pen except to sign a check. Signatures—far from John Hancock’s elegant model—have become mere scribble. Fewer and fewer schoolchildren are being taught how to write in cursive. In The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting, Anne Trubek argues that the decline and even elimination of handwriting from daily life does not signal a decline in civilization, but rather the next stage in the evolution of communication.