Whilst we are on some sub-thread about evolving technologies, let's talk about another "evolution": handwriting.
Who here writes using cursive - traditional or modern? That's cursive, or running writing as it is also called, not "hell", "damn", and so on...
We had to learn a simplified "modern" cursive in primary school, however whether or not you actually used it all the time was completely up to your teacher. My father, being schooled in the traditional cursive, couldn't understand why I was writing so badly.
After changing schools from going from primary to secondary, I never wrote in cursive ever again. For most part, the teachers didn't care - their stance was simple: If we can't read it, we don't mark it.
Reflecting on the whole, I can't understand why we ever were encouraged to learn and write in cursive. We didn't learn the traditional cursive, so it is not as if most of us might be wiser in being able to read older handwritten texts (I learned how to recognise traditional cursive from my father). And that has little to do with the encroachment of computers / typewritten text. Many people, even older ones, who work in service positions that require reading handwriting will usually prefer print over cursive.
Messy print handwriting is usually easier to try and deduce over messy cursive handwriting.
Some associate an air of sophistication with cursive handwriting. I'm not sure that holds strong these days. Calligraphy seems to still have its niches for sophistication or mood purposes, but that's not an everyday writing style.
