futility of blueprints and classified data and “jobs” as a way 
out. Even the words “escape” and “vicarious living” have 
dwindled from the new scene of electronic involvement. TV 
engineers have begun to explore the braille-like character of 
the TV image as a means of enabling the blind to see by having 
this image projected directly onto their skins. We need to use 
all media in this wise, to enable us to see our situation.

    On page 9 there are some lines from Romeo and Juliet  
whimsically modified to make an allusion to TV. Some reviewers 
have imagined that this was an involuntary misquotation.

    The power of the arts to anticipate future social and 
technological developments, by a generation and more, has 
long been recognized. In this century Ezra Pound called the 
artist “the antennae of the race.” Art as radar acts as “an