Whatever happened to Shorthand

I was chatting with one of my sons over the holidays and was telling him about how one of my sisters (older sister) went to a "finishing school" to learn shorthand and secretarial skills.  He had never heard of shorthand and I had to explain to him why anyone would learn this skill. I recently read in a post by Dianne's Medieval Writing she wrote that shorthand was used by Romans known as Tironian script in the 10th century. 

Can you image some future historian coming across some artifact of someone's text message trying to decipher what is was saying R U on Yr Way 2 My house.  But let's also think about what types of technology has come into play from the time of when we used short-hand to current times. 

Short-hand was replaced by the dictaphone, fax machines, then word processors came around --- personal computers, email,  web conferencing etc.  The recent CES was all abuzz about tablets and more gadgets for video and tele-presence. 

I can't wait to see what the next five-ten years will provide us with tech inventions but something tells me it's going to be ever present in all that we do.  Here is an interesting post by a panel that was at the CES show about what's in store for us.  I'm just tickled that I was able to get a new Android tablet over the holidays for $99.00 -- yes that's right I sourced an Android 7" tablet for $99 and it works really well. The brand is MID from China.  I'm still learning all of the features but maybe in a future post I will be able to share with you some cool tips.