All this troubles philosophers and media critics - and rightly so. Yes, video is the future. Yes, it's actually changing the way thought processes work. And, yes, concerned people will try to fight a vigorous rear-guard action against this change. But it will happen anyway, Mr. Stephens says.
Resistance is, well, futile.
Better to plunge ahead, he argues, and move into the post-word world at warp speed. Get used to it. Those fast-moving images will reveal new juxtapositions between ideas that plodding through an argument in print never will. Stephens knows he's way out there with this idea that video will eclipse the word. Great thinkers worried that putting thoughts in writing would destroy the ability to memorize, to remember.