VIVO [Voice-In/Voice-Out]:
The Coming Age of Talking Computers
Prologue: No Words on Their Cereal Box: A Day in the Life of a 21st Century Oral-Culture Family 1
Part I: The End of Writing, Reading, and Written Language/Text 13
1. Last Writes: Previewing the Reasons Why Written Language/Text Will Become Obsolete by 2050 15
2. Grammar-Check, Spell-Check, Speak-Check, Listen-Check: The Technological Reasons for an Oral Culture by 2050-[1] 33
3. (Ear)Wax Makes History: The Technological Reasons for an Oral Culture by 2050-[2] 57
4. Recovering from Scriptitis: The Evolutionary Reasons for an Oral Culture by 2050 69
Part II: Recreating an Oral Culture 89
5. VIVOlutionary Learning: Next Step in Re/Storing Education and Human Consciousness 91
6. Just Thinking Out Loud: Searching for Information Using Sound and Image but No Text 111
7. Written Numerals, Your Number’s Up! And VIVO’s Got Your Number! 125
8. How I Un(w)rote the Notes: Retooling the Arts to Fit an Oral Culture 139
9. Rereading that Middle Passage: Saying Goodbye to “Standard” Written Languages as Tools of Cultural Domination 151
10. Growing Oral Cultures in the VIVO Lab: Examining the Prospects for a Worldwide Oral Culture 171
Epilogue: Frequently Asked Questions with Answers 189
About the Author 197
Bibliography Works Cited 201
Index 205