Personal control of information-processing comes with writing. Now collective and personal information-processing as thought combine literacy and orality on the net or on line. That's a very big thing what's going on and its out of our control. Everything that's based on grammar finds an instant order. It is finding a generating order.
Words are flexible and they are taking very quick changes very fast.
Words are wonderfully useful for adapting very quickly. The media themselves are creating relatively orderly environments. Its interesting for example to see the discussion in the US and Canada today about the Infobahn, and how existing infostructures are trying to combine - that's media finding its order. And its finding its order with push and pull, dialectical contradictions - sudden directions going in a certain way. We will have to deal with that problem, because the selforganizing principal of media is very dangerous when it comes to individual liberties.