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Orality, Literacy and Mass-Psychosis
August 6, 2009 - 4:47pm — JustinOn Tuesday, I attended my first UX Bookclub event. (If you've never heard of this bookclub, details are on their wiki.) We discussed Alex Wright's Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages, which offers a whirlwind tour through the history of information technologies from ice-age totems via Irish illuminated manuscripts to Linnaeus' classification system and the web.
It's a fascinating book, and I'm sure I'll refer to it here more than once. But today I want to focus on a distinction that comes up in a number of places that sparked considerable discussion by our group. That was the distinction between oral and written cultures.
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