Increasingly pervasive computers require new 
literacies. The electronic word revives print and 
transforms newspapers and magazines. Work is 
transformed under electronic conditions, jobs lost, 
and new ones created, blurring the boundaries of 
home and office. Learning a living becomes a 
necessity.

Decentralization becomes a search for relocation 
within a global web. An entertainment economy 
displaces the military industrial economy, as 
culture becomes a global business. Marxist state 
projects crumble, and tyrants everywhere discover 
limits to central control when faced with