The future of Writing

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Auteur

Dan Sperber

Date

2002

Discipline

Linguistique

Type de document

Autres

Périmètre

Publications

Langue

Anglais

Identifiants

ISIDORE Id: 10670/1.8a7a42...
ijn_00000021

Source

HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société)

Collection

Archives ouvertes

Organisation

Centre pour la communication scientifique directe

Licence

info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess

Mots-clés En

reading writing speech-to-text text-to-speech new technologies

Sujets proches En

Handwriting Chirography

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The most controversial thesis I defend here is that the revolution in information and communication technology may soon turn writing into a relic of the past: it will be replaced by the automatic transcription of speech - whereas reading is here to stay. My aim, however, is not to prophesize, but to reflect on the future with the help of tools developed within the cognitive and social sciences

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