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"It’s World Book Day! We’re big readers here at GZERO, and we suspect you might
be as well. Alas, literature just doesn’t have the caché it once did, but in
some ways we are living in a golden age of
literacy. At no point ever in
human history have so many people been able to read and write.
Some 87% of all people above age 15 were able to read as of 2022, up from 67%
as recently as 1979. That’s a big bump, but wind the clock back a bit more to
see just how far we’ve come. In 1820, the World Economic Forum estimates that
just 12% of the world’s adults could read and write."
Via
What Could Go Right?: They Rich Rich?
https://theprogressnetwork.org/young-americans-high-wealth/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
