For Gary Knell, a Mount Kisco resident, it is "literacy," followed by "vocabulary" — the early childhood variety, of course.
"It could be science, it could be technology, it could be literacy.
"Their economies are really malfunctioning, they've missed opportunities of growth, their infrastructure is inadequate, education has not been as thorough as it could have been, literacy -- poor, technical skills -- poor".
"It's like literacy!" she says.
If you say, "Alexa, good morning," she'll respond with some reasonably interesting thing: it's International Literacy Day, it's National Techies Day, on this day in 1947, Harry Truman made the first televised Presidential speech.
But the traps and distractions aren't aspects of the technology so much as they are aspects of know-how -- it's a literacy crisis, not entirely a technology crisis".
Is it a TV?' " Another obstacle is literacy itself: many of the adults in Entasopia, especially women, cannot read.
Among those set to lose their jobs were literacy, numeracy, IT, arts and music teachers, Long said, as well as senior education officer roles, which he said were similar to the position of a school principal.
For some, language is a barrier, for others the barrier is literacy and still for others it is health literacy, such as understanding health insurance plans, deciphering test results and knowing what questions to ask doctors.
