technology constituted by dilation or uttering (outering) of all of our senses at once, are themselves immediately subject to the impact or intrusion of any mechanically extended sense. That is, writing affects speech directly, not only its accidence and syntax but also its enunciation and social uses. (6) Why nonliterate societies cannot see films or photos without much training. * Since the present object is to elucidate the effective causality of phonetic writing in setting up new kinds of perception, let us turn to a paper (7) by Professor John Wilson of the African Institute of London University. For literate societies it is not easy to grasp why nonliterates cannot see in three dimensions or perspective. We assume that this is normal vision and that no training is needed to view photos or films.