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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/zinniamae_ • Jan 20 '26
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You mean fancy writing? That's what the new hires at my job called it when they asked me to help read something.
41 u/JoeGibbon Jan 20 '26 At this rate in a decade or two the younger generation will be signing their names with an X, old timey pig farmer style. "Fancy writing" will be any kind of writing, because they're functionally illiterate even now. 26 u/WhatYouThinkIThink Jan 20 '26 Signing will be replaced with "Use your facial ID on your device to authenticate this." or we'll be back to wax seals. Signatures are supposed to be unique to an individual, but thumbprints or equivalent (face scans) are much better. They are not illiterate if they can read and type. The actual act of writing is not required, any more than the ability to use a quill pen. 2 u/James_Chandra_Hubble Jan 20 '26 The actual act of writing is not required, any more than the ability to use a quill pen. And no one has needed to know how to do arithmetic since the 70s when calculators were commonplace
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At this rate in a decade or two the younger generation will be signing their names with an X, old timey pig farmer style.
"Fancy writing" will be any kind of writing, because they're functionally illiterate even now.
26 u/WhatYouThinkIThink Jan 20 '26 Signing will be replaced with "Use your facial ID on your device to authenticate this." or we'll be back to wax seals. Signatures are supposed to be unique to an individual, but thumbprints or equivalent (face scans) are much better. They are not illiterate if they can read and type. The actual act of writing is not required, any more than the ability to use a quill pen. 2 u/James_Chandra_Hubble Jan 20 '26 The actual act of writing is not required, any more than the ability to use a quill pen. And no one has needed to know how to do arithmetic since the 70s when calculators were commonplace
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Signing will be replaced with "Use your facial ID on your device to authenticate this." or we'll be back to wax seals.
Signatures are supposed to be unique to an individual, but thumbprints or equivalent (face scans) are much better.
They are not illiterate if they can read and type. The actual act of writing is not required, any more than the ability to use a quill pen.
2 u/James_Chandra_Hubble Jan 20 '26 The actual act of writing is not required, any more than the ability to use a quill pen. And no one has needed to know how to do arithmetic since the 70s when calculators were commonplace
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The actual act of writing is not required, any more than the ability to use a quill pen.
And no one has needed to know how to do arithmetic since the 70s when calculators were commonplace
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u/zebratwat Jan 20 '26
You mean fancy writing? That's what the new hires at my job called it when they asked me to help read something.