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JonDrew
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I think it was back in high school when I read this but I remember seeing a statistic which strongly suggest that higher standards of living resulted from high literacy rates. (Which was the cause and which was the effect was considered controversial I believe.)
The other day I was brainstorming philanthropic ideas while having my Macbook Pro read me some articles from the internet and it hit me. What if for the first time in human history an entire civilization could become literate practically overnight with the help of technology. Developing nations might be able to skip a whole world of growing pains if instead of investing in schools to teach people to read, they just made an E-reader with "speech to text" software available to everyone, saving both time and money (when compared to investing in an education system).
I mean the plan isn't Ideal but neither is an illiterate population. What are your thoughts on the matter?
Can anyone find an easy-read statistic which correlates standard of living and literacy rates?
hears the Wikipedia link for world literacy rates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate
The other day I was brainstorming philanthropic ideas while having my Macbook Pro read me some articles from the internet and it hit me. What if for the first time in human history an entire civilization could become literate practically overnight with the help of technology. Developing nations might be able to skip a whole world of growing pains if instead of investing in schools to teach people to read, they just made an E-reader with "speech to text" software available to everyone, saving both time and money (when compared to investing in an education system).
I mean the plan isn't Ideal but neither is an illiterate population. What are your thoughts on the matter?
Can anyone find an easy-read statistic which correlates standard of living and literacy rates?
hears the Wikipedia link for world literacy rates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate