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The hosts mentioned Orality and Literacy as a classic work that anticipated the impact of social media and oral culture on reading and communication.
Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy ... anticipates many changes with social media and is very predictive about the shift from oral to literate societies.
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Episode: The Three Forces Deranging the Economy in 2025
The hosts mentioned Orality and Literacy as a classic work that anticipated the impact of social media and oral culture on reading and communication.
Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy ... anticipates many changes with social media and is very predictive about the shift from oral to literate societies.
Episode: The Three Forces Deranging the Economy in 2025
Ezra mentioned it as a classic that anticipated many changes brought by social media and the oral/visual shift, praising its predictive power.
Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy which I've been talking about a lot which is basically the way like our communication environment is such that we're like an oral society increasingly not just by the fact that we literally talk more on a podcast but that everything is back and forth in this and therefore you don't have this sort of logical contemplation of the person sitting alone in a room actually reading text and judging text on its own merits.
