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Introducing Wo'O Ideafarm, and IdeaNet (tm) Books by IdeaFarm (tm)



---- Harold Shinsato, 2007 ----


---- Kelsey Williams, Stanford Journalism, 2010 ----

Unlike most content on today's Internet, this page is not presented to entertain you with click-bait to generate advertising revenue. I am much older now, in 2026, than I was in those videos. The first 30 seconds of the first video reveals the mission and vision that motivated a high risk, ambitious 35 year software craftwork project. That craftwork was successful, so I am now ready to present what I have built for the benefit of all young people, worldwide.

This presentation is plain text, partly because I am "old school", but also partly because written composition is sometimes optimal. It's not a "rabbit hole"; eight clicks and about twenty minutes of thoughtful reading will get you to the "treasure chest", and you will spend another twenty minutes enjoying the "gold" on that page.

Only 13% of IDEAFARM.COM's target audience can read and comprehend the current presentation. When asked, "What percentage of adults age 20 to 29 regularly read English composition comparable to book length nonfiction, essays, or legal opinions?", an AI responded, in part, "... roughly 13% to 16% of young adults regularly engage with this depth of complex text.". When then asked, "What percentage of adults aged 20 to 29 could read and comprehend http://root.ideafarm.com if they were highly motivated to make the effort?", the AI responded, in part, "... 13% of adults aged 20 to 29 have the foundational capacity to read and fully comprehend root.ideafarm.com, even when factoring in high motivation.".

The presentation on IDEAFARM.COM is intended to do more than communicate ideas; it is also intended to awaken and inspire the reader to both personal and collective action. Prose text is not just a form of communication. It is a form of thinking, of guided thinking, for the writer as well as for the reader. Although guided thinking can be accomplished with other communication forms, generally speaking, prose text is is the most powerful form for guided thinking. That is why literacy is so important, both for the person and for the community and nation. Illiteracy, the inability to participate in the process of guided thinking using prose text, is intellectual blindness. Like a blind person attempting to cross a busy street, an illiterate person is in great peril, groping in darkness while attempting to navigate life.

IDEAFARM.COM will soon be completely rewritten to focus on the problem of illiteracy. The objective of awakening and inspiring the reader to action will not change. But this will be accomplished as a byproduct of converting IDEAFARM.COM into a website focused on promoting literacy. Humans have been using sequences of symbols to represent information for 40,000 years. Although this practice eventually, about 5,000 years ago, became used to represent speech (writing), the basic form, a sequence of symbols, never changed in those 40,000 years. Until now. IDEAFARM.COM will address literacy by introducing a fundamentally new form of writing, the "knowledge tree", that makes both writing and reading easier and more powerful.

If you are one of the 13% of adults aged 20-29 who are functionally literate, you will likely not struggle to comprehend the current presentation, which uses conventional "linear" writing. If you are in the other 87%, you can either give it a try and see how far you get, or just wait for IDEAFARM.COM to be redesigned. Start by clicking [8] this sentence, and give yourself time for thoughtful reading at a leisurely pace.

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