postliterate

While the bigheads have been predicting (and bemoaning) the postliterate society, the kids have been supplementing their Potter with the narratives of Lemony Snicket, the adventures of teenage mastermind Artemis Fowl, Philip Pullman's challenging His Dark Materials trilogy, the Alex Rider adventures, Peter Abrahams 'superb Ingrid Levin-Hill mysteries, the stories of those amazing traveling blue jeans.

Stephen King Rails Against Deathly Hallows Reviewers 2007

You're not owed anything but, at BEST, the neglect of a postliterate culture, and at worst the sort of calumny and brickbats otherwise reserved for child molestors and the people who hang their toilet paper in the incorrect underhand manner.

Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

You have to wonder, is this big, strapping 34-year-old with hair the color of blue M&M's a serious literary man or the child of a postliterate visual culture?

A Spooky But Literary 'Blair Witch Project' 2008

The few books that the post-humans allowed to survive to this postliterate age were vague.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

“The preliterate, meet the postliterate,” continued Savi, opening her hand as if introducing Odysseus to the other four.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

After all, everywhere you look, some pouty intellectual is whining about how we live in a postliterate age, which means that nobody reads anything longer than a text message, and even those are just a few dumb-ass abbreviations strung together -- LOL laugh out loud, LMFAO

ABC News: Top Stories 2011

Have we become a postliterate society before our time?

Dwell On It 2010

A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary.

MachineMachine (formerly 'The Huge Entity') 2009

They’re as perfectly postliterate as you and your comrades were preliterate.”

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981