I was once in New York, and I listened to a talk about the building of private prisons – a huge growth industry in America. The prison industry needs to plan its future growth – how many cells are they going to need? How many prisoners are there going to be, 15 years from now? And they found they could predict it very easily, using a pretty simple algorithm, based on asking what percentage of 10 and 11-year-olds couldn’t read. And certainly couldn’t read for pleasure.
From:
Pocket - Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming
https://getpocket.com/read/459113459
From:
Pocket - Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming
https://getpocket.com/read/459113459