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Increasingly pervasive computers require new
literacies. The electronic word revives print and
transforms newspapers and magazines. Work is
transformed under electronic conditions, jobs lost,
and new ones created, blurring the boundaries of
home and office. Learning a living becomes a
necessity.
Decentralization becomes a search for relocation
within a global web. An entertainment economy
displaces the military industrial economy, as
culture becomes a global business. Marxist state
projects crumble, and tyrants everywhere discover
limits to central control when faced with