Literacy Chris Granger recently published a post that asserts “Coding is not the new literacy.” He points out that “literacy” is defined as the “laying” of characters into units that bear meaning (letters to words, words to sentences, sentences to thoughts). But “literacy” is a proxy noun for something vastly more important: a technology for storing information such that it survives across people, ages, cultures. I recall Ovid whose prophetic close to the “Metamorphoses” was: And now the work is done, which neither Jupiter's wrath, nor fire, nor the sword, nor greedy time can abolish....my better part[this work] will be immortal.