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Years ago, a friend who worked in the consulting field with me deplored the growing use of the computer mouse, which he still called a GUI [graphic user interface], as the first step toward a “post-literate” society.
September « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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Whether Bellow, as he later claimed, was simply drawing on his training as an anthropologist to make a distinction between pre- and post-literate traditions or, as was widely assumed, taking a dig at multicultural egalitarianism, his question remains a provocative one.
Chronicling a World Apart Martin Rubin 2011
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The backstory is thick and, for a post-literate viewership, probably off-putting because writer-director Jonathan English thumbnails the British history that led up to King John signing the Magna Carta.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Ironclad Marshall Fine 2011
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Years ago, a friend who worked in the consulting field with me deplored the growing use of the computer mouse, which he still called a GUI [graphic user interface], as the first step toward a “post-literate” society.
The Post-Literate Society « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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In what is now firmly established as the post-literate era, Howl is a movie about a poem.
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Interestingly this Galactic society is displayed as largely post-literate, from a book from 1976.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Steppe - Piers Anthony Blue Tyson 2010
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His new novel, a slit-your-wrist satire illuminated by the author's absurd wit, follows today's most ominous trend lines past Twitter and Facebook addiction to a post-literate, consumption-crazed America that abhors books, newspapers and even conversation.
Gary Shteyngart's "Super Sad True Love Story," reviewed by Ron Charles 2010
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Interestingly this Galactic society is displayed as largely post-literate, from a book from 1976.
Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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"We're in a post-literate age," says one young thing.
A Wry Dystopian Seer 2010
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In what is now firmly established as the post-literate era, Howl is a movie about a poem.
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