#humanreaders — Public Fediverse posts

"The Post-Literate Interface
The most important substitution may be #literacy itself.
Mass literacy and the mass #middleclass were parts of the same settlement. Industrial states needed #citizens who could read newspapers, manuals, ballots, contracts, timetables, regulations and forms. Bureaucratic modernity was built out of text and therefore required large numbers of #humanreaders.
The text is not disappearing. Law, science, finance, administration and corporate life will remain intensely textual. What changes is who reads."