When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate.
Since I've been born, the population has doubled
and that total population is now 65 per cent literate.
That's a gain of 130-fold of the literacy.
When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders
to understand and get the information and deal with it.
When we are at the point where the majority of humans themselves are literate,
able to get the information, we're in an entirely new relationship to Universe.
We are at the point where the integrity of the individual counts
and not what the political leadership or the religious leadership says to do.
Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path
