amitabh jotwani

I was brainstorming about a rather interesting internet venture yesterday (I would leave the details undercover here ) and a few points came to my mind, so I wanted to jot them down before I forgot. And even before I realised it, my hands lay on the keyboard of my computer….not a pen and a notepad but the computer…Can you believe it? I mean when did this transition happen? When did I get over the notepad days? When did I get upgraded or downgraded depending on how you look at it?

I looked back and a strange realisation dawned on me, which may be familiar to all similar geeks….I hardly write anything these days, write as in pen and paper write…everything I do is on the computer, the brainstorming sessions, the reminders, the plannings; you name it and I am doing that on my computer…

The last thing that I can remember writing or probably would still write is any information given to me over the phone…but believe me if you would, if I was anywhere near my computer, that information would be going straight down to Google notepad!!

With that said, I wonder if the next generation would even need to learn how to write…I mean as long as you know how to type..you will be fine -

• There would be no handwriting competitions, unless it’s Arial vs Verdana
• There would be no marks set aside for good handwriting..I mean come on everyones typing..unless there are marks set aside for Lucida Handwriting…so if you wrote your English essay in Arial…bad boy…marks cut!!

We would probably be laughed at when we tell our kids what a Pen is…they would be like…”you guys used to write?? We just think and my computer emails the thoughts!!” Now that would be awesome!!