Introduction IX

Prologue: No Words on Their Cereal Box: A Day in the Life of a 21st Century Oral-Culture Family 1

Part I: The End of Writing, Reading, and Written Language/Text 13

1. Last Writes: Previewing the Reasons Why Written Language/Text Will Become Obsolete by 2050 15

2. Grammar-Check, Spell-Check, Speak-Check, Listen-Check: The Technological Reasons for an Oral Culture by 2050-[1] 33

3. (Ear)Wax Makes History: The Technological Reasons for an Oral Culture by 2050-[2] 57

4. Recovering from Scriptitis: The Evolutionary Reasons for an Oral Culture by 2050 69

Part II: Recreating an Oral Culture 89

5. VIVOlutionary Learning: Next Step in Re/Storing Education and Human Consciousness 91

6. Just Thinking Out Loud: Searching for Information Using Sound and Image but No Text 111

7. Written Numerals, Your Number's Up! And VIVO's Got Your Number! 125

8. How I Un(w)rote the Notes: Retooling the Arts to Fit an Oral Culture 139

9. Rereading that Middle Passage: Saying Goodbye to "Standard" Written Languages as Tools of Cultural Domination 151

10. Growing Oral Cultures in the VIVO Lab: Examining the Prospects for a Worldwide Oral Culture 171

Epilogue: Frequently Asked Questions with Answers 189

About the Author 197

Bibliography Works Cited 201

Index 205