Photography is about 200 years old. Film (moving images) is about 100 years old. The ability to easy create video is about 20 years old. Compare all of that to

Photography is about 200 years old. Film (moving images) is about 100 years old. The ability to easy create video is about 20 years old. Compare all of that to text, which is at least thousands of years old. And then compare text to speech, which is hundreds of thousands of years old. Had a way to record and replay audio been developed before writing, it’s likely that you’d be listening to this comment right now, not reading it. I’d say we’re at the extreme beginning of a highly audiovisual age. A millennium or two from now, writing “dead” words might seem as ancient to our descendants as foot messengers appear to us: useful for particular purposes but mostly irrelevant. On a related note, the concept of logocentrism seems relevant here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logocentrism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logocentrism