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be no point of view in a mosaic of simultaneous items. The
world of impressionism, associated with painting in the late
nineteenth century, found its more extreme form in the
pointillisme of Seurat and the refractions of light in the world of
Monet and Renoir. The stipple of points of Seurat is close to the
present technique of sending pictures by telegraph, and close
to the form of the TV image or mosaic made by the scanning
finger. All of these anticipate later electric forms because, like
the digital computer with its multiple yes-no dots and dashes,
they caress the contours of every kind of being by the multiple
touches of these points. Electricity offers a means of getting in
touch with every facet of being at once, like the brain itself.
Electricity is only incidentally visual and auditory; it is primarily
tactile.
As the age of electricity began to establish itself in the