People, animals, machines, kaleidoscopically re-
converge as characters. Children and adults 
respond to changelings and mutants, mythic even 
grotesque figures of constant change. Computers 
are personified as wise guides, especially for the 
young. A benevolent computer allies itself with a 
group of teens to solve mysteries or problems in 
the television series GhostWriter . This computer 
has no voice. To get the clues, the kids must read 
the words on the screen. Visual space is more 
resilient than McLuhan foresaw, but he was also 
right: under electronic conditions spatial 
experience is transformed. Starting young. 
Generation by generation.