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post literate society gets closer everyday
If my client base is any indication it's already here. We are thus as a society, to use the vernacular, most likely cooked.
Or simply divided between the literate and illiterate.
The Time Machine comes to mind.
I was thinking Fahrenheit 451. Written text is outlawed, everything is conveyed through images.
Hard to disagree based on what I just experienced.
This morning I got some new earbuds. The booklet that came with the earbuds includes no written instructions. Only a short series of pictures to show you how to pair and use them. There is also a QR code to a video.
The pictures were clear and simple to follow. I must admit it was nice not to need to use my reading glasses. I'm not sure how cooked we are though. Mass literacy is a pretty recent development for human society after all.
Often things like that are so they don't have to explain it in multiple languages for international markets. Same booklet for everyone!
Yeah. That's just them saving money on translation and printing. Now they don't have to pay for translators to every language they sell to, and they don't have to print different instruction booklets for every language (or print a super-long instruction booklet that repeats the same instructions in 10 different languages).
Apparently the general population has an understanding of written/spoken language at about the 6th grade level...
What if the recent push back into feudalism works too well and we get the "dark ages" all over again.... lol...
Well hey, that's improved over 40 years ago. USA Today famously wrote to a 4th grade reading level.
But yeah, second dark ages is for real happening all around us.
All the apps are orchestrated social engineering to separate us from one another, making us easier to divide/manipulate