His extensive use of clip art makes his book at once unpretentious and accessible. The book does go a long way to help us understand the extent of what we already know-and the large potential and possibilities that are still almost invisible to many. However, we may wonder whether there may be a deep cultural and economic resistance to the full adoption and recognition of visual language-so that vast potential might be continually unrealized, as with television. Some could see clearly a vision for educational TV-which never really happened. But perhaps the history of TV is not so much a failure as it is just one further step to a larger vision of possibility.
Sight is swift, comprehensive, simultaneously analytic and synthetic.
It requires so little energy to function, as it does, at the speed of light, that it permits our minds to receive and hold an infinite number of items of information in a fraction of a second. The copyright of articles and images printed remains with the author unless otherwise indicated.