Not helping the digital divide

response to  Anne Trubek's post Stop Teaching Handwriting

What about the cultures that either don't use or don't have technology in abundance? If someone who only knows how to communicate via some device finds themselves in a non-tech culture, and they don't speak the language, how do they navigate that community?
Also, what happens if a non-handwriting person has a spectacular idea but their battery has died? How do they record/remember that idea?
I'm no Luddite, I teach technology, perhaps that's why I'm familiar with the failings of it.

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