English professor Barry Sanders, from Pitzer College, Claremont, California, is the author of A is for Ox: Violence, Electronic Media, And the Silencing Of The Written Word (1994). The book explores the state of civilization in the face of the declining importance of the printed word. Much of Sanders’s work is built on ideas explored by Eric Havelock, Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan. Sanders postulates that people from a post-literate society may not be the same kind of human being fostered in a literate world.
