“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can’t
read & write, but those who can’t learn, unlearn & relearn.” –
Alvin Toffler So what is literacy? The first time I listened to
an audio book I thought I was cheating. As a child, reading for
me seemed like a lot of work, and my teachers kept piling on
more reading assignments, continually feeding into the notion
that reading is hard work. Later, I rationalized that the
process of reading is the process of taking characters on a page
and turning them into mental concepts and images. Listening to
an audio book is a little different process where we convert
sounds into mental concepts and images. Today, when someone
talks about literacy there is an instant assumption that they
are talking about the ability to read and write – basic ink-on-
paper communications 1.0. However, communications is evolving
and our ability to craft words and preserve them on paper is
being replaced with digital forms of communications, and the
options people now have to com