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Cursive writing rapidly going the way of the dodo

This makes me feel really really old...

"The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand, and now it's threatening to finish off longhand.  When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams for the class of 2006, just 15 percent of the almost 1.5 million students wrote their answers in cursive. The rest? They printed. Block letters." 

That's just... shocking... I make handwritten notes on paper when I'm designing stuff, and I write letters.  Is that going to be alien in 20 years?

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