The Enduring Legacy of Clubhouse’s Chatty Revolution
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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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