I believe that the only way to treat people like people is to see them for what they really are. I haven't verified these calculations or the basis for these calculations, but my gut tells me that they are very conservative. If you take the numbers that I put out above regarding literacy, then less than 1 person out of 100 in the entire world can read a college textbook sufficiently to pass a college course. If I'm on a Desert Island, and I want to communicate something to people that I have not tested their literacy, then I'm not going to depend on a textbook. I believe that the problem is one of boundaries.
People have a hard time cross ing the boundary between being human and the written word.
But, to the challenge, let's find a way to further Technology Transfer in International Development. I know that a few people from this list have checked out what I'm doing with the face. The language to script the face is as close to HTML as I could make it. The technology is available for the price of a download.