Reading in Shadowrun, A lost art? Options

[Drraagh]

Now, I know the vast majority of things in Shadowrun has become electronical so things will read the news to you, trideo is all vistual, the trix is majorly visual. However, there are some who have R/W skills for their languages. What sort of uses would you use that for? I mean, gridguide is going to give you directions to where you want to go, a lot of systems are voice activated or have iconic representations. So, why would reading ever come into play?

In other games, I've used reading skills to read the secret memo on the desk of the corporate exec you're talking to or writing skills to make a forged document. However, Shadowrun isn't either of those.

What originally brought this up was that I started watching 7 Days again. In it, one of the characters is seen reading books upside down sometimes. It is a sign of dyslexia, but I figure he does it because as he was military trained and part of the naval intelligence, he was likely taught in a way to read things on people's desks and so forth.

I suppose you could have people writing into datapads (or speaking into them and the pad displaying it in writing), or even have the plexies like they have in Andromeda, or the clear screens like in the Minority Report. However, then we're assuming people know how to read. Probably everyone with a SIN can read, or at least those who have gone to school. Maybe some of the sinless can read, being taught by other people or managing to get things like a Speak and Spell working. There was an article about that sort of thing, putting the cyberpunk in Shadowrun. Kind of old news for some stuff today, since the site is mostly SR2 stuff, but could be interesting. Cyberstyle for those with no style. ;)