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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