Mourning the Death of Handwriting

<i>physicians -- whose illegible handwriting on charts and prescription pads causes thousands of deaths a year</i><p>Holy shit! That sounds like a way more interesting article to write than this one. Is that seriously true?<p><i>"I worry that cursive will go the way of Latin and that eventually we won't be able to read it," says Garcia. "What if 50 years from now, kids can't read the Declaration of Independence?"</i><p>Reading these documents already requires some trouble, especially since (to today's eyes) they were authored by the "Continental Congrefs".

This article seems to be claiming that computers and text messaging are responsible for the final decline in handwriting, but I grew up before personal computers were ubiquitous (I was born in 1977) and cursive was already heavily deemphasized in the schools I went through. I don't recall a single teacher who wouldn't accept hand printed work.

Well, I'm 37 and never have had good handwriting much preferring to type all of my life.