Reading for pleasure is already a niche activity; people might decide literacy just not something they care too much about, like cooking.
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(This sounds like a dystopian future but accurately describe 2017 cooking, reading, and religious observance to someone from 1950...)
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The ability to read signs, menus, the web, will probably still be around. You mean the literacy needed for Gibbon?
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I mean that if you wrote four paragraphs of text on an unfamiliar topic and asked an adult about what it meant they'd be unable to tell you.
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I'm not sure what you mean. If the consequences of not reading are down, wouldn't that indicate a lower cost of reading?
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I mean that that achieving literacy takes as many years and drops of brainsweat as ever, but being illiterate loses some sting.
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Cost of reading is down if you combine additional reading skill with RSVP and/or fast TTS tech.
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I think literacy rates are up since TwitFace/texting. Social life consequences of middle schoolers up for illiteracy. Many more notes passed
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No foresee significant decline. Texts tempt discreet messages for students at age learning to read. Everyone paper in pocket, pen at hand
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