"I don't read cursive"

Carol Guanella came home from the bookstore with her head still shaking.  She'd gone to the Barnes & Noble in downtown Santa Rosa to buy a friend a gift of the book on the historic victories and principled sacrifices of the University of San Francisco's 1951 football team. Guanella had written down the name of the author and the title: Kristine Setting Clark, “Undefeated, Untied, and Uninvited.”  The mother and grandmother approached a young sales associate, told her she was looking for a particular book and handed her the paper.  “She looked at the note,” Guanella said, “and she said, 'You'll have to read it to me. I don't read cursive.'”
This is a true news article. How crazy is this???
Cursive writing has been removed from the school curriculum in at least two Canadian provinces and over forty U.S. states.That makes me wonder, Will there be a day in the distant future that trying to make sense of cursive writing will be much like how it was for us trying to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics?