technology. The scriptures had had none of that uniform and 
homogeneous character during the centuries before Gutenberg. 
It was, above all, the concept of homogeneity, which 
typography fosters in every phase of human sensibility, that 
began to invade the arts, the sciences, industry, and politics 
from the sixteenth century forward.

     But lest it be inferred that this effect of print culture is a 
“bad thing,” let us consider rather that homogeneity is quite 
incompatible with electronic culture. We now live in the early 
part of an age for which the meaning of print culture is 
becoming as alien as the meaning of manuscript culture was to 
the eighteenth century. “We are the primitives of a new 
culture,” said Boccioni the sculptor in 1911. Far from wishing 
to belittle the Gutenberg mechanical culture, it seems to me 
that we must now work very hard to retain its achieved values.