Way back in the 1960's Isaac Asimov wrote an essay called "Forget It," in which he goes over some of the things children used to be routinely taught in school that are no longer part of the curriculum. Such as the full range of arithmetic using Roman numerals. Such as dry weights, including 2 pints to a quart, 2 quarts to a...pottle? 2 pottles to a gallon, 2 gallons to a peck, 4 pecks to a bushel, 2 bushels to a strike, 2 strikes to a coom, 2 cooms to a quarter, 5 quarters to a wey, and 2 weys to a last.
Asimov makes the case that rather than teaching old information, we should be forgetting more obsolete facts to make room for more modern and efficient material. We're never going back to a world where cursive is in widespread use. Nor will we need to. By the time the last generation of cursive readers has died out, people will likely have available a "Google Lens" type augmented-reality translation on the fly of great-great-grandma Edith's old love letters.
Asimov makes the case that rather than teaching old information, we should be forgetting more obsolete facts to make room for more modern and efficient material. We're never going back to a world where cursive is in widespread use. Nor will we need to. By the time the last generation of cursive readers has died out, people will likely have available a "Google Lens" type augmented-reality translation on the fly of great-great-grandma Edith's old love letters.