"Is Technology Changing the Japanese Language?"<p>FTFY. Moralistic "them kids today" alarmism is generally unwarranted. Evolution doesn't have a direction - it is merely change; to assign value judgment to this change historically has turned out to be shortsighted.
Too lazy to subscribe. Is the gist "People can't write kanji anymore because computer-assisted input requires only passive knowledge"? If so, that was old news 20 years ago. Electrical typewriters were a <i>huge</i> thing in Japan, because mechanical ones could never produce the ~3000 characters they use.