Why? I just can't see relationship. Adding without a computer teaches you a mental skill, cursive is more about motor control and dexterity. There is no substitute to mental skill, but I'd rather apply my motor skill and dexterity learning to something applicable in my life. Learning cursive is, in my opinion, a waste of effort that would be better applied elsewhere (typing perhaps).

Cursive is simply not relevant anymore, if we want to scribe fast, we use a computer.

Oh, you Luddite -> There done.

It will be interesting to see how text messaging rates with cell phone carriers will work with Google Voice. http://www.beckthomas.com/

Wow, my country-water school has been teaching touch typing in the fifth grade since... well since they got a bunch of computers with 5-1/4 floppies (I don't remember what they were, just they only had 5-1/4 drives). I know the grade before me used them too, so at least since... 1995

This is why when I got fired from my last company I yelled at the manager who had the nerve to fire me for BS reasons and I have no intention of ever working for a corporation again. I refused to be escorted out and took my sweet time leaving. I went to every coworker individually and said my goodbyes. He accused me of not being at work on a couple days where subversion logs prove that in fact I was there. He had no idea what I was working on when he himself assigned me to the tasks. Grade A Jerk. Nothing in the termination agreement had anything to do with actual work I did.

As a young but experienced developer I have one goal and one goal only: do things that you can highlight on a resume. If your jerk of a boss doesn't recognize that work while you're working for him the next company will see it clearly highlighted for them and you'll easily be employed somewhere else where you have a better chance of being appreciated.

You can't hurt real talent. You can only displace it to another company. There is no shortage of work for developers even in this economy.

For the first 9 months, no. But from then on its possible, just impregnate 1 woman a month. And wait for 9 months time(which may or may not be acceptable depending on the case) and 9 women would have a baby in a month. All you have to do is forget the first nine months, and hope that you will survive the first 9 months without loosing too much.

That's what non-cursive writing (printing) is for. It's much more legible to people other than the writer.

Lots of things are getting phased out by new technology, and cursive wasn't so great to begin with. It's more difficult to read and slower than typing.

Think about this - do you compose an essay different when writing it manually compared to typing it out? Of course you do - writing manually forces you to take your time and think things out a little before you start. There's no going back to insert a new paragraph, or rearranging the order of your arguments at the last second. The skill of writing with cursive may not be useful - but don't dismiss learning to compose an essay "the old fashioned way." Technology is no substitute for substance and coherence... and it's about more than just spell/grammar check.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/26/1922239/26-Years-Old-and-Cant-Write-In-Cursive?from=rss

Unless they plan on using a fMRI as a means of determining if something is deceased, I fail to see the problem with it. The actual signals would probably override any kind of intrinsic result for the control tests.