Reading TFA felt exhilarating. Like taking drugs on a thrill ride. No seriously. It's hard for me to explain, but as I read, I felt the device I was holding had turned into solid gold in my hand.

The scariest part for me:

> Cueing was appealing because they didn't know what else to do.

A whole pedagogy in the grip of learned helplessness, as if they all caught some insane mind virus, to the point they were virtually inoculated from the knowledge their methods could be considered harmful.

Think about it. When you multiply out the disadvantage to kids of a poor start in reading, the compound interest comes back as poor performance in other areas such as writing, maths, science, reasoning skills, technology use. Think it through and you realize it screws everything.

The real sci-fi question is, could it scale to bereave a whole society of its very cohesion?