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The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
Where previous entertainment technologies like cinema or television were intended to capture their audience’s attention for a period, the smartphone demands your entire life.
James Marriott • The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
No article has shaken me this year the way The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society has. Really fucked my shit UP.
The world of print is orderly, logical and rational. In books, knowledge is classified, comprehended, connected and put in its place. Books make arguments, propose theses, develop ideas. “To engage with the written word”, the media theorist Neil Postman wrote, “means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying,... See more