Humans are color craving variety hounds. We have a physical hunger for visual variability, and for very good reasons. We get direct hits of pleasure in the deepest parts of their brains simply by catching a glimpse of ripe fruit. This craving for a strong hit of something pleasurable and meaningful , delivered directly into our optic nerves, is what drives people to paint on cave walls, paint madonnas, commune with nature on their back yards or on the Discovery Channel, watch MTV . . . and surf the Internet looking for a vision fix. Nah, they just didn't have good video cards yet.
Individual idiosyncrasies are always at play, of course.
But what has driven the average citizen to the internet in great numbers is not an itch to read more. Words are just one among many symbol systems we are eagerly scouting out. The Internet is now and will increasingly be driven in the direction of more and better visual display. And where there is a market demand, there is a way. So say the army of software and hardware developers out there whose lives are dedicated to coming up with better tools for visual display because .