Our whole ability to think depends a lot on our handwriting, that's why it's so important for children to learn how to write, not type. Though a script becomes worser and worser with the years- less of habit.
I also notice that I personally often treat a piece of paper as an electronic device, looking for an option of "saving" or " undo".
But I don't think that paper will stay a habbit for the next 10-15 years. As soon as children in school use only electronic devices, we can say a very qiuck good bye for paper- which is good in terms of tree-saving but not so good in terms of human thinking.
It was used to be a naive reason of ours when we were not in the mood of taking a test.."We are on a mission of saving trees ..Let's not cut them by utilizing paper sheets in this process...;)
Jokes apart..When I was going through your blog it suddenly popped into my mind that how about replacing the paper currency too..since this process has already been digitalizing gradually ..Things like Digital wallets ( paypal,google wallet etc.. ) are facilitating us so why not this?
I thought I'd seen a pocket whiteboard somewhere that was the size of a single index card. Or rather two folded over so the writing surface wouldn't smudge. I can't find it now.
It reminds me of the diploma, which the ancient Romans used to take notes. It was a pair of tablets hinged together with a layer of wax on the inside. You'd heat the wax to soften it to write, scratch your notes with a stylus, and then the wax would get cool and hard again. You'd fold the two sides together and seal the case to keep the notes from becoming obliterated. We take the modern word "diploma" from that gadget.
Oh. My. Gosh. I need this! I absolutely need this!
Kim, as for a good To-Do list for mobile, I felt the same way until I came across GTasks for Android. It's got a neat widget and you can schedule recurring tasks, which can come in really helpful in my field of work.
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