Umberto Eco: The lost art of handwriting | Books | The Guardian

Umberto Eco . . . 'The crisis began with the ballpoint pen. Handwriting no longer had soul, style or personality'. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe Recently, two Italian journalists wrote a three-page newspaper article (in print, alas) about the decline of handwriting. By now it's well-known: most kids – what with computers (when they use them) and text messages – can no longer write by hand, except in l