Aside from people engaged in knowledge work, a large fraction of the population will not need to know how to read and write. Instead they will depend on video, audio, and icon knowledge, with text to speech and speech recognition as required.
From the report one might find FAQ table interesting.
The illiteracy also covers being able to do math. If people only depend of text to speech and speech recognition formats, they lose their critical thinking skills.
While the report does not actually say that one can make the inference. This also explains the heavy handed use by the democrat party being able to censor what they call disinformation. Why? Because the people who are falling under the 6th grade bench mark in reading and math, essentially are not able to think critically. Follow the experts, follow the science all those catch phrases will make people easy to manipulate.
https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/state-county-estimates.asp#4
“Instead they will depend on video, audio, and icon knowledge, with text to speech and speech recognition “
Yes, but our heavily used devices currently require an ability to read and write and I think that won’t be supplanted by text to speech, etc., because it’s quicker to read than listen.
Our populace might not be learning the King’s English but reading and writing ain’t be goin way.
The weird thing is that a lot of those folks don’t realize how illiterate they are. But the open borders types want MORE people flooding the system instead of fixing the problems that are already here.