Slip a few carefully chosen words into an envelope, stamp the letter and post it.
Will these gestures soon be a thing of the past?
On July 21, La Poste announced the replacement of its famous red stamp by a dematerialized "e-letter" by 2023. And on average, households only send five priority letters per year, i.e. nine times less than 'in 2010.
Emails, instant messengers, and other digital means of communication have supplanted the handwritten letter.
"
Writing by hand
takes four to five times longer than writing on a digital interface,
" explains Marieke Longcamp, teacher-researcher at the cognitive neuroscience laboratory at Aix-Marseille University.
The brain functioning on the economy, it is normal that of the two writings, we choose the simpler.
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