Humans are in trouble.

We’ve always had our problems, but the exponential acceleration of technology and information has at the same time accelerated the rate at which we, as a species, are hurtling toward a number of crises of our own creation: for example, the growing environmental crisis; and the global issue of expanding income disparity.

A recent World Bank Report on ending educational poverty highlights another growing crisis—the fact that in lower-income countries, as much as 90% of ten-year-old students cannot read a simple book…