Interactive Movable Type: Invention of the Millennium?

Many historians consider movable metal type the last millennium's "invention of the millennium." Movable metal type was a hardware invention that made mass literacy and public education possible.  A new kind of movable type, interactive movable type, may come to be viewed as this millennium's invention of the millennium. Interactive movable type is a software invention that will enable everyone to read. It’s an invention that could enable every nation to move rapidly to full literacy at costs they can afford.

With the interactive movable type software and its reference substructures, the personal computer becomes a powerful personal tutor -- a highly-skilled reading teacher who is available 24/7. Through the support of an array of computer tools, this new type will enable readers to understand and speak any word in a body of text in their native language -- or in a second language (through the use of dual-language reference substructures, translation tools, and text-to-speech software). And, when reading text set in this new movable type, each reader will be able to make far better use of his or her own visual, aural, and cognitive capabilities than is possible with conventional text.

Interactive movable type will be demonstrated in a movie now being prepared by The Mudoc Corporation for its website, mudoc.com.  The script for the movie, The Coming Revolution in Writing and Reading, is already on the website and can be seen at http://mudoc.com/crwr/crwrscr1.htm ("A New Relationship between People and Text") through http://mudoc.com/crwr/crwrscr8.htm ("Life in a World of Superreaders"). MuvieTime, a prequel to this movie, can be seen on YouTube.com .

In the future, most of the text that is consumed will be interactive text delivered by a low cost and highly portable display device, the telereader terminal.  Descriptions of the telereader and its uses can be seen at http://mudoc.com/screenlesspc.htm ("Tomorrow's Screenless PC)" and http://mudoc.com/newclass.htm ("The Classroom of Tomorrow: An Educational Wonderland").

And eventually, most of the text that is consumed will be text set in a new computer language, a computer language that can be used like a natural language, a written and spoken language that may be called Easy.  Easy will be a language that greatly facilitates human-computer interaction by capitalizing on all the advantages offered by the interactive movable type software.  Easy will enable most readers to become superreaders.  Descriptions of Easy can be seen at http://mudoc.com/mission.htm ("The Mudoc Mission"), at http://mudoc.com/mpms4.htm ("Languages of the Future"), and at http://mudoc.com/easydev.htm ("Easy Development").