Monday Musings: Handwriting is Dead?

I know we've recently discussed the topic of print books vs. e-readers, and pondered if some day print books would in fact become obsolete.  However, in a recent article, The death of print has been greatly exaggerated by Kirsten Reach of Melville House, this discussion goes beyond books to include newspapers, magazines, and even handwriting....remember those days when our handwriting/cursive was graded for neatness and legibility, and if it didn't meet the grade we were forced, much to our disdain,  to write the assignment over? In her article, Kirsten argues that the death of print is, in essence, overly exaggerated and provides examples of how this debate has been going on for centuries. 

Although this isn't necessarily book-related, I would have to seriously question the downfall of handwriting in an age of text messages and emails.  When I was teaching freshman English during my years of Graduate Studies, I quickly became appalled at not only how poorly hand-writing has become, but that students were quite comfortable with incorporating text message acronyms and jargon into academic writing assignments.  I cannot begin to count the number of times a student would write "B4" instead of "before".  And not only did this appear in academic assignments but also student emails.  Yes, this is perhaps my biggest complaint resulting from today's technology.  What are your thoughts? Do you think  handwriting is a dying art form?