be no point of view in a mosaic of simultaneous items. The 
world of impressionism, associated with painting in the late 
nineteenth century, found its more extreme form in the 
pointillisme  of Seurat and the refractions of light in the world of 
Monet and Renoir. The stipple of points of Seurat is close to the 
present technique of sending pictures by telegraph, and close 
to the form of the TV image or mosaic made by the scanning 
finger. All of these anticipate later electric forms because, like 
the digital computer with its multiple yes-no dots and dashes, 
they caress the contours of every kind of being by the multiple 
touches of these points. Electricity offers a means of getting in 
touch with every facet of being at once, like the brain itself. 
Electricity is only incidentally visual and auditory; it is primarily 
tactile.

     As the age of electricity began to establish itself in the