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Literacy Lifted

At its most basic, literacy remains the capacity to understand and compose what goes on a page, but literacy rides on the back of the information tools and abilities of each age. Today our digitally accented culture has shattered and reforged the idea of "page". At literacy's most basic new-normal, the shape of a page now glows on screens that range from watch size to smart phones to glasses to stadium walls and every size in-between, with each display capable of multiple smaller windows of pages. Far more significant is the digital page's capacity for simultaneous delivery, input and interaction. The ever so humble input command has enabled numerous new powers along with disruptive changes to past practices.  Through its simple presence it elevates the most important input of human culture, the question, along with the most important result, the search for a truthful and understandable answer. A real question serves as the axle of a rotating ying-yang of understandin