Comment by IT4MD
6 days ago
I don't see a lot of people still writing with quills, and there's a reason for that, yet there have been no catastrophic consequences, excepting maybe for "Big Quill".
Personally, I think this veers into hyperbole a bit. The degradation in motor skills is barely measurable when compared to common tasks required of people today and we're talking about a skill that has less and less use cases every day.
I believe this is trying to judge a fish by how well it climbs a tree, in a lot of regards.
YMMV.
> degradation in motor skills
If writing was so important for motor skills then it is very weird that kids only needs this single exercise.
Why don't we have many different things to do with hands then?
Like gym lessions which teaches many different sports/exercises instead of doing many years of the same exercise.
Nothing in the study accounts for other factors. I played a number of musical instruments growing up, and if I had ignored handwriting, I'm fairly sure I would still have better than average fine motor control.
If you don't want to be replaced by machine you need a skill which machine can't replicate and train that skill somehow. Or become a very good machine operator.
Like this?
https://hackaday.io/project/190788-homework-machine
Machines have been writing with pens for longer than I've been alive - since 1958 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter#History.
For that matters, pens are a type of machine. if you use a pen you are a machine operator.
A pen is a tool not a machine, or does your pen have a motor?
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Yeah, but fine motor skills is not something required today all that much. Machines already took over all the fine motor skills jobs.
Machines that can hand write already exist: https://bantamtools.com/collections/bantam-tools-nextdraw
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