the post-literate society

A great Marshall McLuhan quote on the speech-to-text transition:

Until writing was invented, men lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. The goose quill put an end to talk. It abolished mystery; it gave

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More than misinformation alone, chatbots adapt to individual users’ desires, building relational authority over time. Anthropomorphism, not intelligence, is AI’s killer feature.

hen people don’t evaluate ideas separate from their speakers, power gravitates to the most magnetic voice in a room.