But Egyptian hieroglyphics prove an inadequate medium to spread Amenhotep IV's short-lived Egyptian monotheism three millennia earlier. The Soft Edge is now three years old. Unlike so many of its genre, it is becoming more powerful with the passage of time. But human desire twisted the technology into different shapes. Levinson notes, too, how the advent of word processing and the Web has disrupted the centuries of ever more simple media access.
Computers enforce the biggest jump in user ability since the advent of the written alphabet.
So television, which insists unnaturally that viewers watch a particular program at a particular time, begets the VCR, a medium which lets viewers see their own presentation. And the printed book, the periodical, the pamphlet begat first the mimeograph and photocopy. At night he likes nothing more than to tinker with his web site using the latest software. His columns contain a wealth of information for wanna-be webmeisters. Science rules in Web design FOUR years ago, with a book called Creating Killer Web Sites , a former graphic designer named David Siegel celebrated Web design as a craft approaching art.