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of man, are “make happen” agents, but not “make aware”
agents. The hybridizing or compounding of these agents offers
an especially favorable opportunity to notice their structural
components and properties. “As the silent film cried out for
sound, so does the sound film cry out for color,” wrote Sergei
Eisenstein in his Notes of a Film Director . This type of
observation can be extended systematically to all media: “As
the printing press cried out for nationalism, so did the radio cry
out for tribalism.” These media, being extensions of ourselves,
also depend upon us for their interplay and their evolution. The
fact that they do interact and spawn new progeny has been a
source of wonder over the ages. It need baffle us no longer if we
trouble to scrutinize their action. We can, if we choose, think
things out before we put them out.
Plato, in all his striving to imagine an ideal training school,