Reading and writing are unnecessary for much of the population given the progress in speech to text and text to speech algorithms. We can go straight to learnin

Reading and writing are unnecessary for much of the population given the progress in speech to text and text to speech algorithms. We can go straight to learning how to express ideas in speech and learning how to locate, access and understand information. And calculators have rendered arithmetic unnecessary for some time. The focus should be on how to use calculation for financial and technical purposes.