Ever since humans learned to document the world around them, writing, in its most basic form, has proven an invaluable tool for us in trying to understand life. Which is why it is nigh unimaginable for us to think what life would have been like if humanity hadn’t come up with the written word. Exactly how did the advent of the internet and digital text spell doom for the written word? Introduce the internet, and the written word might as well be a thing of the past. Bangladesh is seeing an ever-increasing number of new media-obsessed users, who, far from writing, don’t even find time to read anything, either online or offline.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 01, 2018 21:45 UTC