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Nothing Could Be More Misleading Than The Idea That Computer Technology Introduced The Age Of Information. The Printing Press Began That Age, And We Have Not Been Free Of It Since.

Certainty Abolishes Hope, And Robs Us Of Renewal.

The Line-by-line, Sequential, Continuous Form Of The Printed Page Slowly Began To Lose Its Resonance As A Metaphor Of How Knowledge Was To Be Acquired And How The World Was To Be Understood. "knowing" The Facts Took On A New Meaning, For It Did Not Imply That One Understood Implications, Background, Or Connections. Telegraphic Discourse Permitted No Time For Historical Perspectives And Gave No Priority To The Qualitative. To The Telegraph, Intelligence Meant Knowing Of Lots Of Things, Not Knowing About Them.

By Itself Photography Cannot Deal With The Unseen, The Remote, The Internal, The Abstract, It Does Not Speak Of Man, Only Of A Man ; Not Of Tree, Only A Tree.

Watching Television Requires No Skills And Develops No Skills. That Is Why There Is No Such Thing As Remedial Television-watching.