A positive look at how talking computers, VIVOs, will make text/written langauge 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 text-less, 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.
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
"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
"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
About the Author
William Crossman is a philosopher, futurist, and professor involved with issues of education, media and technology, language and culture, and human rights.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
An exciting and detailed glimpse of what the mid twenty-first century just might hold,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: VIVO [Voice-In/Voice-Out]: The Coming Age of Talking Computers (Paperback)
Philosopher William Crossman foresees radical future changes in VIVO (Voice-In/Voice-Out): The Coming Age of Talking Computers, an upbeat look at how a voice-in voice-out interface with talking computers will revolutionize the world - to the extent of making written language obsolete by 2050! A steep claim indeed, yet the author is prepared to back it up with an in-depth examination of how the technology is used, its benefits especially to sight-impaired or functionally illiterate individuals, current trends in computing, and much more. A question-and-answer section at the end effectively summarizes and delivers radical insights into a burgeoning new field. Whether or not one agrees with the final conclusion, VIVO is an exciting and detailed glimpse of what the mid twenty-first century just might hold.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Future of Books,
This review is from: VIVO [Voice-In/Voice-Out]: The Coming Age of Talking Computers (Paperback)
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!
Frank Duhl
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
The 20th Century is behind us, the new millennium has arrived, and, in the electronically-developed countries: most people would rather talk to someone on the telephone than write to them; most people would rather watch TV than read a book; most schools are experiencing a decline in student literacy skills-a true literacy crisis-with little hope for a breakthrough. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
basic survival activity, volatile contradiction, basic survival activities, written numerals, talking computers, audiocassette player, using written language, oppressed communities, oral culture, theoretical mathematics, spoken numbers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Charlotte, Black English, United States, Black Bible Chronicles, White English, Garifunas of Orinoco, Smiley Face New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
The 20th Century is behind us, the new millennium has arrived, and, in the electronically-developed countries: most people would rather talk to someone on the telephone than write to them; most people would rather watch TV than read a book; most schools are experiencing a decline in student literacy skills-a true literacy crisis-with little hope for a breakthrough. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
basic survival activity, volatile contradiction, basic survival activities, written numerals, talking computers, audiocassette player, using written language, oppressed communities, oral culture, theoretical mathematics, spoken numbers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Charlotte, Black English, United States, Black Bible Chronicles, White English, Garifunas of Orinoco, Smiley Face New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 6
books:
See all 6 books this book cites
- Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte on page 118, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics) by Robert Burton on page 107, and Back Matter
- Black Bible Chronicles: From Genesis to the Promised Land by P. K. McCary on page 160, and Back Matter
- The Theory of Relativity: & Other Essays by Albert Einstein in Front Matter
- James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America) by James Baldwin on page 167
See all 6 books this book cites
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
