A generation is rising that will experience this way of framing reality as foundational. Speech won't disappear, nor will writing. Interactive electronic media redefine the relationship of symbolic content to itself and to the human symbol-user and redefine how we use other media. And we, songbirds in our digital cage, will be both liberated and imprisoned by our pixellated glyphs. Islands in the Clickstream is a weekly column written by Richard Thieme exploring social and cultural dimensions of computer technology.
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