The Gutenberg Galaxy  develops a mosaic or field 
approach to its problems. Such a mosaic image of numerous 
data and quotations in evidence offers the only practical 
means of revealing causal operations in history.

     The alternative procedure would be to offer a series of 
views of fixed relationships in pictorial space. Thus the galaxy 
or constellation of events upon which the present study 
concentrates is itself a mosaic of perpetually interacting forms 
that have undergone kaleidoscopic transformation—
particularly in our own time.

     There might have been some advantage in substituting 
for the word “galaxy” the word “environment.” Any technology 
tends to create a new human environment. Script and papyrus 
created the social environment we think of in connection with