“Reading maketh a full man, […] and writing an exact man,” said Sir Francis Bacon. But what happens when the written word is overshadowed by the spoken one?
Welcome to a new era – call it postliteracy if you will – where endless paragraphs give way to short snippets, audiobooks and podcasts grow ever more popular and artificial intelligence reliably handles the nitty-gritty of spelling, grammar and style. It’s a time when you can speak your mind, quite literally, into a microphone and watch the words appear on screen, automatically polished for publication.
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