VIVO Voice-In / Voice-Out
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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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William Crossman. VIVO Voice-In / Voice-Out
VIVO [Voice-In/Voice-Out]
Table of Contents
Introduction
Prologue. No Words on Their Cereal Box: A Day in the Life of a 21st Century Oral-Culture Family
PART I. The End of Writing, Reading, and Written Language/Text
CHAPTER 1. Last Writes: Previewing the Reasons Why Written Language/Text Will Become Obsolete by 2050
CHAPTER 2. Grammar-Check, Spell-Check, Speak-Check, Listen-Check: The Technological Reasons for an Oral Culture by 2050–[1] Musing 1
Musing 2
CHAPTER 3 (Ear)Wax Makes History: The Technological Reasons for an Oral Culture by 2050-[2] Musing 3
Musing 4
CHAPTER 4. Recovering from Scriptitis: The Evolutionary Reasons for an Oral Culture by 2050. Musing 1
Musing 2
Step 1 = Picture-Objects
Step 2 = Pictographic Words-Hieroglyphs
Step 3 = Phonetic Alphabets
PART II. Recreating an Oral Culture
CHAPTER 5. VIVOlutionary Learning: Next Step in Re/Storing Education and Human Consciousness
CHAPTER 6. Just Thinking Out Loud: Searching for Information Using Sound and Image but No Text
CHAPTER 7. Written Numerals, Your Number’s Up! And VIVO’s Got Your Number!
CHAPTER 8. How I Un(w)rote the Notes: Retooling the Arts to Fit an Oral Culture
CHAPTER 9. Rereading that Middle Passage: Saying Goodbye to “Standard” Written Languages as Tools of Cultural Domination
The Spoken-Language Question
The Written-Language Question
CHAPTER 10. Growing Oral Cultures in the VIVO Lab: Examining the Prospects for a Worldwide Oral Culture
Epilogue. FAQ’s with AÄs: Frequently Asked Questions with Answers
About the Author
Bibliography—Works Cited
Index
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“Audacious and mind-stretching, Crossman sees our reliance on the printed word coming rapidly to an honorable end. He offers valuable reassurances about our humanistic prospects after the book has faded in use. He invites us to imagine co-existence with very ‘smart’ equipment in an oral culture that sounds very rewarding. His original scenario warrants open-minded consideration by all who appreciate the thoroughness of the extraordinary on-going changes we must turn to advantage.” –Arthur B. Shostak, Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for Employment Futures, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“William Crossman’s VIVO [Voice-In/Voice-Out] is 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
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• The zooming number of magazines, newspapers, and books available on audiocassettes, on CDs, and digitally online using voice-recognition technology.
• The new mobile/wireless digital telephony, voice portals, VoiceXML (Voice eXtensible Markup Language)—the vocal equivalent of HTML (HyperText Markup Language)—and phone-casting, modeled on TV-radio broadcasting, a media network of Internet audio channels available to any telephone.
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