The Enduring Legacy of Clubhouse’s Chatty Revolution
Sight isolates, sound incorporates. This was the signature insight of Walter Ong, the tech philosopher who considered spoken language superior to written language and a greater stimulus to intimacy and imagination. A proud phonocentrist, Ong further believed that heroism lives almost exclusively …
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