Cursive writing: Expendable?

I haven't used cursive in years.  Even my signature can hardly be called cursive.  It's more of an indecipherable scrawl.  Other than the years I spent instructing my students in cursive when I taught third grade, I have not found any use for this form of writing in my own life. 

Perhaps it has something to do with being left-handed.  Dragging my hand across a written page leaves my hand stained with ink. 

I mention this because there's been some concern as of late that cursive is a...