Atomization of Information

Words are not what they used to be

Agreed.

When I first heard about Medium a couple of years back, it seemed like there was still hope to move the internet towards richer content again. So much of the modern internet age has moved further and further away from what we used to consider writing. Format, diction, consistency, revision. They have been replaced by tweets, likes, reactions, and the dreaded comment section. With each new platform seemingly shorter than the last. And that doesn’t include rise of emojis. The very foundation of our language has changed when we switched to digital.

From Ink to Bits

I am one of the rare people in the world that still handwrite in cursive. At some point as a young adult, I had decided that it was something I wanted to do. The style and the fluidity of the movement was elegant. There was no need to leave the page except to literally cross the t’s and dot the i’s. It just became the natural way that I wrote anything throughout university and ever since. But recently, I swapped the pen for the digital typewriter in an attempt to write novels and longer works. It was simply more convenient to organize, to save, and to edit. I had never considered the real implications of leaving the page behind for the keyboard until now.