habit that deters and obstructs literate man in modern 
physics, as Milic Capek explains in The Philosophical Impact of  
Modern Physics . Men in the older oral societies of middle Europe 
are better able to conceive the nonvisual velocities and 
relations of the subatomic world.

     Our highly literate societies are at a loss as they 
encounter the new structures of opinion and feeling that result 
from instant and global information. They are still in the grip of 
“points of view” and of habits of dealing with things one at a 
time. Such habits are quite crippling in any electric structure of 
information movement, yet they could be controlled if we 
recognized whence they had been acquired. But literate society 
thinks of its artificial visual bias as a thing natural and innate.

     Literacy remains even now the base and model of all