Nearly all the emotional and corporate family feeling is eliminated from his relationship with his social group . . . . Separateness of the individual, continuity of space and of time, and uniformaity of codes are the prime marks of literate and civilized societies. . . . Tribal cultures cannot entertain the possibility of the individual or separate citizen. Today in the electric age we feel free to invent nonlineal logics. . . . The auditory sense, unlike the cool and neutral eye, is hyper-esthetic and delicate and all inclusive.
Oral cultures act and react at the same time.
Phonetic culture endows men with the means of repressing their feelings and emotions when engaged in action. Ironically, neither has the intellectual skills to survive in the Information Age. The former's serial processing creates too narrow a bandwidth. Hypertext has been variously characterized as nonlinear prose, interactive print, or dynamic text using electronic capabilities to overcome the limitations of linear, printed text. The portability of print also encourages what might be considered perversely isolated and solitary modes of reading, thus reducing the performance dimension of learning . . .