And we were never taught how to use a typewriter either. Outside of school, nearly nothing was in cursive besides my name. With DocoSign and the like being basically ubiquitous, I don't even sign papers anymore. By the time I am old, cursive will be as mystical as a dial phone. People will lament about how we're missing out on something but really it isn't much, and certainly not things which could be solved in a better way anyways.
Good riddance. In the subsequent 30 years since I learned cursive in the 5th grade I can only think of a handful of times it has been relevant in my life. Even having learned this useless arcane skill it doesn't solve the problem that a lot of the cursive you encounter in the real world is completely illegible. Even in terms of hand written note taking it's not leaps and bounds better than a fast sloppy efficient style of writing print.
Agreed. I only used cursive until I wasn't forced to anymore. I much prefer to readability of print. I only use cursive for my signature.
I learned about this recently when my nephew got married. I wrote the card for their wedding gift in cursive and he and his wife asked me what language it was written in.
Are there any easily-accessible OCR systems that can reliably read cursive?
Transkribus and ScriptReader are supposed to be decent.