the acclaimed keyboard, to the detriment of paper

Upstrokes and downstrokes. Writing is a French tradition that has given millions of schoolchildren rich hours. She slowly gets lost, overcome by the computer keyboard. Picking up the pen is no longer a completely natural gesture for the French, not even to give news to family or friends. “It’s true that I don’t remember at all the last time I wrote a card, or a handwritten letter, unfortunately”recognizes a young woman.

Learning today also passes through the keyboard

Even the postcard has suffered an inexorable decline since the 2000s, with the rise of the mobile phone. In 2022, less than one in three French people wrote one. And writing may not immediately find its hour of glory. Because learning today also involves the keyboard. However, 55% of French people prefer it to paper and pen. A pen which, in the last century, had struggled to establish itself compared to the nib. Is personal writing, intimate correspondence, really on the way out?