translate any kind of tricky space into the straight, the flat, the 
uniform, and the “rational.” This concept of infinity was not 
imposed upon us by logic. It was the gift of Gutenberg. So, 
also, later on, was the industrial assembly line. The power to 
translate knowledge into mechanical production by the 
breaking up of any process into fragmented aspects to be 
placed in a lineal sequence of movable, yet uniform, parts was 
the formal essence of the printing press. This amazing 
technique of spatial analysis duplicating itself at once, by a 
kind of echo, invaded the world of number and touch.

     Here, then, is merely one familiar, if unrecognized, 
instance of the power of one medium to translate itself into 
another medium. Since all media are extensions of our own 
bodies and senses, and since we habitually translate one sense 
into another in our own experience, it need not surprise us that