In a nutshell, "Such attitudes are worrying to a growing number of parents, educators and historians, who fear that computers are speeding the demise of a uniquely American form of expression. Handwriting experts fear that the wild popularity of e-mail, instant messages and other electronic communication, particularly among kids, could erase cursive within a few decades." First (and with a big roll of the eyes), I don't know about people in Britain or Australia, but I learned cursive and I am most definitely not American - when authors say something is 'uniquely American' (and this happens a lot) they should actually look outside the United States to verify whether this is so. Second, so we lose cursive. No loss. I stopped using it somewhere in early high school, opting to print any written work I did.
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