I see no reason for cursive, I am an engineer so take it for what it's worth but my print and the print I see on some hand drawn prints rivals anything in beauty. In college we were taught not to use cursive because everyone tends to adapt it to their own, where print stays fairly uniform. I also cross my z's so they do not get confused with 2's. If something is of no real use anymore should we keep it around for nostalgia? People can still read old english, and even Greek I think we will be OK.