When technology extends one  of our senses, a new translation 
of culture occurs as swiftly as the new technology is 
interiorized.

A theory of cultural change is impossible without knowledge of 
the changing sense ratios effected by various 
externalizations of our senses.

The twentieth century encounter between alphabetic and 
electronic faces of culture confers on the printed word a 
crucial role in staying the return to “the Africa within.”

Current concern with reading and spelling reform steers away 
from visual to auditory stress.

The alphabet is an aggressive and militant absorber and