The two authors of this piece from Seed magazine say that: "Nearly universal literacy is a defining characteristic of today’s modern civilization; nearly universal authorship will shape tomorrow's."
http://seedmagazine.com/content/arti...ing_revolution
Authors of the report are:
Denis G. Pelli is professor of psychology and neural science at New York University and co-inventor of the Pelli-Robson contrast sensitivity chart.
Charles Bigelow is the Carey Distinguished Professor of Graphic Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology, a MacArthur Foundation prize fellow, and co-designer of the widely used Lucida font.