Reading and writing are doomed. Literacy as we know it is over. Welcome to the post-literate future. This is a podcast created by a class of graduate students at the iSchool, University of Toronto. We encourage you to participate - don't just listen! Comment on our blog and get in touch: beyondliter…
The University of Guelph First Year Seminar course, Beyond Literacy, explores the idea of post-literacy through interviews and experiments.
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Episode Eight - PostHumans: A Radio Play by Beyond Literacy
Episode Seven - We Welcome Our Machine Overlords by Beyond Literacy
Episode Six - Synthesizing Information by Beyond Literacy
Episode Five - What If You Could Remember Everything by Beyond Literacy
Episode Four - Too Much Information by Beyond Literacy
Episode Three - Digital Reading by Beyond Literacy
Is reading an addiction? Are we happily addicted? Does our addiction prevent us from seeing or accepting a post-literate future?
The alphabet is one of our most important inventions. But it's just a tool. It can be replaced or displaced by another more powerful and advantageous tool. The dialogue about post-literacy continues.
This is the first in a series of podcasts about the possibility of a post-literate future.