I am totally opposed to the new Age of Orality totally replacing the age of print and verbal literacy. It's dumbing down to the lowest intellectual level.

“The age of orality was an age of social storytelling and flexible cultural memory. The age of literacy made possible a set of abstract systems of thought—calculus, physics, advanced biology, quantum mechanics—that form the basis of all modern technology,” Thompson writes. Now the current demise of literate culture—exemplified by the growing prevalence of social media and decline in reading—may be signaling a return to orality that is once again transforming the human experience, he argues.

-Derek Thompson in The Atlantic