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"a fourth category beyond primary/residual/secondary orality — call it tertiary, conversational, or post-typographic orality — that captures the dyadic, interactive, archive-conditioned character of AI voice agents"

From The Acoustic Return: A Research Pass on McLuhan, Voice Interfaces, and the Fifty-Year Visual Detour

Supports Attributed assertion · a fourth category beyond primary/residual/secondary orality is needed

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Extracted 22 July 2026

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