Heidegger surfboards along on the electronic wave as 
triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave.

*     This kind of ballet of mind choreographed by Gutenberg by 
means of the isolated visual sense, is about as philosophical as 
Kant’s assumption of Euclidean space as a priori. But the 
alphabet and kindred gimmicks have long served man as a 
subliminal source of philosophical and religious assumptions. 
Certainly Martin Heidegger would seem to be on better ground 
in using the totality of language itself as philosophical datum. 
For there, at least in nonliterate periods, will be the ratio among 
all  the senses. But this is not to recommend nonliteracy, any 
more than the uses made of print are a judgment against 
literacy. In fact, Heidegger seems to be quite unaware of the 
role of electronic technology in promoting his own nonliterate