Interesting posting date. My hunch, upon starting to read this article & looking at the patterns, is that as soon as you arrive at an optimized keyboard layout

Interesting posting date. My hunch, upon starting to read this article & looking at the patterns, is that as soon as you arrive at an optimized keyboard layout, you have created a new kind of cursive & you can dispense with the keyboard. You might need one more optimization step to do it, but you can unfold the strokes patterns & there you have a kind of shorthand.