An Ear Person, not an Eye Person

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I am drawing on McLuhan's insights here - where he noted, that after we invented Language, we used it constantly, and lived in a world of the Ear - our primary mode of communication.

The next big change, was this huge change we now call Civilization, where language was written down. And the Eye became more important, because it could look at language someone else had written somewhere else, and in another time. The Ancient World had begun.

This trend was greatly accelerated with the invention of the Printing Press - which ushered in the Modern World.

I first read the transcript of this talk, but this did not work for me, and I switched to the video instead. Which was much better! Their streaming video server is different however, and you have to get used to it.

I could sit back, and watch it (and its slides) easily. You do need a laptop, however, with its much larger screen. And a mouse helps too.