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do you ever think about the way phone autocorrect flattens the expressive quality of precisely where each individual touch lands into a flat string of characters
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that with the shift from physical to virtual keyboards, we have recreated the idea that different people have different handwriting. but that handwriting is hidden from everyone, even ourselves.
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(compare it to the days of Morse code, where operators could recognize each other's "fist", or individual rhythm of pulses. which was of course lost when the message was transcribed... but it did exist, and people heard it and knew it)