2018-04-03 21:57 GMT+02:00 Richard Wordingham via Unicode < [email protected]>:
> Ultimately, the number of literate species will grow as the cube of > time. > Do you realize that litteracy level has already started to shrink (replaced by audio/images/videos) including in most developed countries, and that areas where it is still growing a bit are in the poor developing world within its rather small middle class that can access to education, largely influences by those that control the network media? The rest is connected now to the Internet via cheap mobile devices to just look at videos and send basic emojis over social networks as the only mean of communication, but not as a mean of learning... So I have serious doubts about your statement of growth as the cube of time; if this was ever true in the past, then the trend for de-litteracy will also evolve at the same rate, and people will then no longer need Unicode at all as they will no longer need to interchange text they can no longer decipher.
