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IDK, I was taking my notes on a laptop for the last year of college in 2006. It was perfectly doable. I was never copying down graphs by hand, or charts. I never did that even back in the 90s in highschool. And if you're taking a math class you probably (at least in college) will be using tools that are designed for formulas.
Heck, in the time they're not spending teaching cursive, they could be teaching LaTeX for formulas. It's no harder to pick up than cursive.
Typing in LaTeX is way slower than writing by hand, especially equations. Charts and graphs are absolutely needed in many fields, and even though there are ways to produce them digitally, none are as fast and easy as taking notes by hand.
You could argue that teachers will just hand over PDF notes, but actually writing them yourself is a way better way to memorize them.
To this day, I always keep pads of graph paper on hand to jut to-do lists, solve equations or draw quick diagrams.
Sure, I'm just pointing out that there are also fields where you don't need to do that, and I experienced that back in 06. This goes back to my point in a different post on this thread that it's a BIG YMMV sort of thing.
That all said, I actually see digital continuing to improve - I think we're in the early to mid part of the S curve of maturity of digital, especially writing tablets etc, and paper is way way way further on that curve to where I'd bet unless we replace it with "paper like e-ink tablets", it's close to as good as we can get it. So in the LONG run I'd still bet on paper being matched at some point, and then it's kind of surpassed due to the other benefits of digital.
Writing on paper does not throw hard to decipher errors though