In a sense, we have the printing press, but people are still illiterate. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

In a sense, we have the printing press, but people are still illiterate. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup How about China? Like many fundamental technologies, the printing press and moveable type were Chinese inventions. But "oh how the mighty have fallen!" IMHO the problem here in 2022 China is the politicization of education and media which denies individual ideas and experience from the earliest years, illogically burdening children with unnavigable quantities of take-home homework and suffocating the analytical thought and independent curiosity that are so critical for research and development. It is as if no research in to pedagogy occurred since the 1920s, and individuals still belong to a numbered local production collective, except that now it is titled a "Number X Middle School". They literally give out little flags to children as young as pre-school, it's full on nationalism every day here. Meanwhile the parents, working full time, can never obtain any notion of economic or social security, thus pressure their children to conform to the system which they are told will deliver opportunity, depite torturing their own children to the point of myopia (there's an epidemic Asia-wide). Not so different from the west in many ways, just different in how they get there, and children being robbed of their childhood is a tragedy. Also, because everyone is so economically insecure and poorly educated with no access to insightful media it's rare to see genuine outward social or environmental conscience. How can someone innovate on the big issues if they don't even recognize them or have no genuine personal alignment?