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have the needed immunity to visualization for work in the non-
Euclidean math and quantum physics. Were we to teach our
math and physics by telephone, even a highly literate and
abstract Westerner could eventually compete with the
European physicists. This fact does not interest the Bell
Telephone research department, for like any other book-
oriented group they are oblivious to the telephone as a form ,
and study only the content aspect of wire service. As already
mentioned, the Shanner and Weaver hypothesis about
Information Theory, like the Morgenstern Game Theory, tends
to ignore the function of the form as form. Thus both
Information Theory and Game Theory have bogged down into
sterile banalities, but the psychic and social changes resulting
from these forms have altered the whole of our lives.
Many people feel a strong urge to “doodle” while