Remember writing?

No really do you?  Do you remember learning to write in school.  After mastering print you moved onto cursive, the skill that you would undoubtedly use the rest of your life.  This is becoming obsolete.  Most schools only teach cursive in the 3rd grade.  Some schools are doing away with it all together so students can learn "21st Century skills".  Below is a link regarding this topic from the New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/us/28cursive.html

Now penmanship is of little to no importance.  Everything is typed and spell checked, so inadequacies in spelling and grammar are no problem!  Typing as a skill itself has even decreased in importance.  How often do you get asked how many words per minute you can type.  Now we continue to move toward dictation over typing.  Siri is the beginning of this for most of us.  We can now dictate questions, instructions and text messages.  Siri will become more advanced as Apple better understands the ways consumers rely on Siri.  Siri doesn't work for third party applications as of now.  But if you love Tweeting and would rather be hands free check out this video.  (Or watch it anyway.)