What Comes after Literacy? Droids that read our kids to sleep?

Post literacy, just let that sink in. What does it mean to us as a society? Will we all be illiterate bums having stories told to us by computers? Will R2D2 read our children to sleep? This concept is one that I find hard to wrap my mind around. What will become of us if we do not read, more so what will become to our children?

I wonder if reading will be something like the "Book of Eli," (not the whole last Bible deal, just the last of something important) will we dwindle out until there are few then none who can read? Personally, I think that we will continue to read, but be read to as well. Maybe there will be a shift to reading for pleasure again and we will be read the grueling things in our lives.

I like how it is put that we are considering post literacy as a search for alphabet 2.0. Maybe that alphabet is something that everyone across the globe will be able to understand, but will that have negative implications and take away from our culture? If we move beyond literacy and into an age without it, I do not think that I will live to see that day. However, I do not see literacy going anywhere anytime soon. As a race we are still heavily influenced by reading and gathering information. We use it as a way to communicate, express ourselves, make conversations with others and ourselves, and so much more.

Thinking about a post-literate world really freaks me out- but we will see, well maybe not me.

But, what would an age without handwritten notes to read be like, boring, well I think so.