Thanks to the VIEWS Project, I gave a talk at the Writing As Visual Experience conference last month in Cambridge that was and is currently the best representation of my thinking (and the most fun any speaker ever had while suffering from COVID). The talk was titled “Consider the Mermaid,” which may not make any […]
Dear friends of the Endangered Alphabets, and of the written word: I plan to write a book about a fascinating and paradoxical phenomenon taking place all over the world. Just when we in the West are abandoning the art of handwriting or delegating writing altogether to AI, a number of minority cultures around the world […]
Every single time I give a talk about the Endangered Alphabets project, one question comes up: What about cursive? Is handwriting still important? And what is its future? This is more than nostalgia: it touches on a fascinating and paradoxical phenomenon taking place all over the world. Just when we in the West are abandoning the art […]
On Monday morning (that is, September 9), I had an adventure beyond a geek’s wildest dreams. In Cambridge for a couple of weeks to do endangered alphabets research, I went to the Cambridge University Library and, casting around for somewhere to start, I asked Frank in the Manuscripts Reading Room for a couple of books […]
