Postliterate society

Postliterate society

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A postliterate society is a society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in "Ilium (novel)".

Postliterate is markedly different from preliterate. A preliterate society has not yet discovered how to read and write; a postliterate society has moved beyond the need for reading and writing. All information is either transmitted via sound or some other, more complex means. Postliteracy is sometimes considered a sign that a society is approaching the technological singularity.

ee also

*Asemic writing
*Film
*Multimedia literacy
*Oral history
*Radio
*Television studies
*Transliteracy
*Visual literacy

External links

* [http://www.asemic.net Asemic Magazine]
* [http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/ The New Post-Literate]


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