"The new generation will be alphabetic and not image oriented" (297). hmmm?
Read at an incredible speed off the screen. (I say, the will be able to keep track, synchronously, architectures of space and information beyond our normal reckoning.) We shouldn't be focussed on opposing visual to written communication, we should be trying to improve them both (see O'Donnell, recreating our culture, p. 54).
"Computers are diffusing a new form of literacy but are incapable of satisfying all the intellectual needs they are stinulating" (300).
"The real problem of an electronic community is solitude (304) . . . . when an integrated multimedia sequence of events succeeds in bringing pople back to a nonvirutal reality, something new can happen" (306).
A Rube Goldberg (O'Donnell) model seems to me the only metaphysical template for our elctronic future" (306).