I've known this since High School...

Handwriting is irrelevant

I remember in 3-4th grade when I was being taught cursive that we would have to write in cursive in HS and if we didn't we'd fail and end up working at McDonalds (I'm paraphrasing a little) and we were all terrified and obediently suffered through handwriting lessons that likely would have been better spent teaching us math or science or history or something. I mean, only like, twice do I recall being forced to write in cursive:
1. In 8th grade my english teacher complained she couldn't read my printing.
2. On the PSAT, was it? I had to recopy some statement in cursive and then sign my name? It was hilarious because waiting for the classroom full of HSer's to do that took as long or longer than the rest of the registration process.

The threat that we would have to use cursive was as empty, apparently, as when a 5th grade substitute threatened to teach us trigonometry for our math lesson.

Yea, my handwriting sucks, but so does my dad's, and he went to school ages ago way before these 'new-fangled' computers with 'screens' and 'keyboards' and 'solid-state memory' and he isn't a doctor.

I take notes by hand in my technical classes because that way I can easily fit in the various charts and diagrams that are part of the curriculum/learning process. In my humanities courses, with my newly-acquired portable laptop, I take notes on the laptop because I type faster than I can write legibly and I can smack together some ASCII-diagrams if I have to. Additionally, this makes my notes easily searchable and means I can have a backup copy if I lose my notebook or whatever. I could also theoretically sync my note-files to my university's central storage and be able to access them from any internet-connected computer.

I would say handwriting was on it's way out over the past 50 years as some form of electro-mechanical writing (computer or typewriter) system has become more and more readily available.