Beyond Literacy

The University of Guelph First Year Seminar course, Beyond Literacy, explores the idea of post-literacy through interviews and experiments.

Episode Nine - Post-Literacy: What Has It Meant to Us by Beyond Literacy

Episode Eight - PostHumans: A Radio Play by Beyond Literacy

Episode Seven - We Welcome Our Machine Overlords by Beyond Literacy

Episode Six - Synthesizing Information by Beyond Literacy

Episode Five - What If You Could Remember Everything by Beyond Literacy

Episode Four - Too Much Information by Beyond Literacy

Episode Three - Digital Reading by Beyond Literacy

Is reading an addiction? Are we happily addicted? Does our addiction prevent us from seeing or accepting a post-literate future?

The alphabet is one of our most important inventions. But it's just a tool. It can be replaced or displaced by another more powerful and advantageous tool. The dialogue about post-literacy continues.

This is the first in a series of podcasts about the possibility of a post-literate future.