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VIVO Voice-In / Voice-Out: The Coming Age of Talking Computers Kindle Edition

by William Crossman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A positive look at how talking computers, VIVOs, will make text/written language obsolete, replace all writing and reading with speech and graphics, democratize information flow worldwide, and recreate an oral culture by 2050. Text is an ancient technology for storing and retrieving information; VIVOs will do the same job more quickly, efficiently, and universally.
Among VIVO’s potential benefits: 80% of the world’s people are functionally nonliterate; they will be able to use VIVOs to access all information without having to learn to read and write. VIVO’s instantaneous translation function will let people speak with other people around the world using their own native languages. People whose disabilities prevent them from reading and/or writing will be able to access all information.
Four “engines” are driving us irreversibly into the VIVO Age and oral culture: human evolution, technological breakthroughs, young people’s rejection of text, and people’s demand for textless, universal access to information. Future generations, using eight key VIVOlutionary learning skills, will radically change education, human relations, politics, the arts, business, our relation to the environment, and even human consciousness itself. Worldwide access to VIVO technology looms as a key human rights issue of the 21st Century.

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"A welcome addition to the discussion about voice-recognition technology and the social implications of talking computers." -- Edward Cornish, President, World Future Society, Bethesda, Maryland

"Audacious and mind-stretching. Crossman sees our reliance on the printed word coming rapidly to an honorable end." -- Arthur B. Shostak, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

"If you are an educator, you need to read this book." -- Les Gottesman, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California

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William Crossman is a philosopher, futurist, and professor involved with issues of education, media and technology, language and culture, and human rights.

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  • Frank Duhl
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Future of Books
    Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2005
    Bill Crossman has written a fascinating book that challenges the way we think about reading and writing. He explains that literacy was an advance for some people, but has never been the way that most of the people in the world share information. He says that in 50 years very few people will be using written language. Instead, we will return to the oral/aural culture that people have used for the million years that we have been here on Earth. He challenges us to think about the impact of VIVO on the haves and the have nots. This book may be even more important than Marshal McCluhan's The Medium Is the Message which I read in the early 1970s. It opened up my mind and made me think! I highly recommend this book!

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