Ours to conquer

In the year 2000, when it was mentioned that reading and writing will disappear sooner than later, the reaction was not just one of disbelief, but one of ridicule.  Here it is 14 years later.  Now the reaction is one of sorrow, usually, that reading and writing will apparently be replaced.  A lot sure can happen in a short time.  Who would have thought that at the start of the 10 year battle for supremacy between reading and writing and that quantum leap to the visual, virtual world that an assault so powerful could have unseated two core values such as reading and writing.  Well, I'll tell you what - a whole generation of digital natives, virtual world inhabitants, have taken over the invention circuit and changed the entire landscape right under the baby boomers' noses.

In case there is a non-believer or two left in the crowd, here is an article from today's news.

Well, what do you know!  A bookless library!  Click here.

Yeah, reading and writing  are being replaced.  With what you ask?  Something that will lead us to a world a quantum leap away from this one now.  How so?  Click here.

And in case you think women are the ones who are bemoaning the switch from reading and writing to the visual virtual world, think again.  Click here.

Yep! By the time 3 more years go by - the end of that 10 year war to replace reading and writing - I suspect that coding will be the new writing, that libraries will contain the machinery to deliver a much more responsible and much more robust type of learning, and that women and men alike will partake in the world that has all along been theirs to conquer.