Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - WhatsApping in Tongues

Well I just stumbled on Rosalind  Thomas. (1999). Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece.Cambridge UP-
where a  point is made that Plato
deeply distrusted the written word as a means of true education and elaborates on this in his "Phaedrus".Greek borrowing of the Phoenician  alphabet
may have had something to do with this
but the view that "knowledge should  be in the soul not on paper" was apparently common.  Anyway talking about WhatsApp etc,  I wonder how other civilizations across time and space  would have viewed this mode of communication- assuming they could envisage it!




Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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