"If it’ll make you feel better, you don’t have to. You can learn a few key
words, a few symbols. Few people choose to read these days. They watch the trid 
and flat for news and entertainment. They use icon and voice-based computers to 
move data around for their employers. Programmers are literate in the comp 
language, but not much else. The only people who have to worry about reading are the ones who make it all work. They have to know how to read to keep 
things going, to improve the tech. But it’s rare. You can get by without reading
if you want. You’ll learn a few words, like STOP, and you’ll see them just like
icons, and that’ll be that."