In his 1977 speech to the National Humanities Institute, Walter Ong asked his audience to imagine something that feels almost impossible for us today: a world without writing or any print medium. He explained that oral cultures, those societies that rely entirely on the spoken word, experience and share knowledge very differently from literate cultures.

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