<< It has been a long while since the literacy rates in the current developed countries had reached almost 100%. This can evidently shows that the skill to read and write came to vital in these countries. This increase in the importance of the skill is coincided with the changes in the society over time. Firstly, people come to need to interact with many people and depend of their basics on others to survive in the world, especially in the developed countries and regions. When people left farming and went into manufacturing industries, they come to buy food and other basics such as electricity and water. This transaction is usually done through letters, indicating that people need to be able at least to read the bills and invoice. Prior to the industrialisation, people could survive without any literacy skills because they used to get these things on their own or simply buy in person, but no through mails. Secondly, the secondary and third industry came to be dominant industry in the developed world and this requires labours to have the skills to write and reed. There is no way that you can get a job at these fields if you do not have this skill. Moreover, because the most jobs need the workers to have literacy skills, it is highly possible that the people without skills are unemployed. Even if these people can get a job, it is unlikely that they can get high salaries. This can be proved by the immigrants without the skills the developed world, say, who works as a room attendant even if s/he has a certificate as a doctor in their own country. If you do not have the skill, you end up getting low paid jobs. Lastly, the information that you can obtain has increased, with which you need to have skill to read and write. For example, so much information is available on the internet. This information can tell you many things. For example, you can learn about current issues, find out your study and hobby, find job opportunities and so forth. Even if not online, the newspapers can convey you these information. To take advantage of this, it is necessary for us to read them so that we can get some useful information, The quality information will lead you to better life because you could wisely pick things out of many information. Some may say that you can get information from TV and radio that do not require you to have any reading skill, the books, internet articles, journals are better them the TV and adios in terms of information source. This is because it is easier to obtain access to these information sources, and because these books and other things have more creditability as information source.