Put a few carefully chosen words in the envelope, put the letter and post it. Will these gestures soon become a thing of the past? On July 21, La Poste announced that it will replace its famous red stamp with a dematerialized “electronic letter” by 2023. And on average, households send just five priority letters a year, nine times less than in 2010.
Emails, instant messengers, and other digital means of communication have replaced the handwritten letter. “Write by hand takes four to five times longer than typing on a digital interface, explains Marieke Longcamp, a teacher-researcher at the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Aix-Marseille. The brain working on the economy, it is normal that we choose the simpler of the two writings.
Great followers of instant messaging on the Internet, some young people still prefer to pick up the pen again. This is the case of 22-year-old Paula, who prefers to leave…
Source: Le Figaro
