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“[Professor Anne Trubek argues that] 'There will be a loss. There’s a certain fine motor skill and kinetic memory that will get lost as people hand write less, and that is something to mourn. But there are advantages that will come in its place… 'We’re dealing with massive change at the moment in terms of technology,’ [Ewan Clayton, a professor of design at the University of Sunderland] says. ‘We know that changes in writing practices are changing the way we use and think about the library, about newspapers, about books. And we have emotional attachments to these institutions and objects. So naturally there’s anxiety around those changes because we are having to handle big adjustments, both personally and in a wider social context.’”