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technology. The scriptures had had none of that uniform and
homogeneous character during the centuries before Gutenberg.
It was, above all, the concept of homogeneity, which
typography fosters in every phase of human sensibility, that
began to invade the arts, the sciences, industry, and politics
from the sixteenth century forward.
But lest it be inferred that this effect of print culture is a
“bad thing,” let us consider rather that homogeneity is quite
incompatible with electronic culture. We now live in the early
part of an age for which the meaning of print culture is
becoming as alien as the meaning of manuscript culture was to
the eighteenth century. “We are the primitives of a new
culture,” said Boccioni the sculptor in 1911. Far from wishing
to belittle the Gutenberg mechanical culture, it seems to me
that we must now work very hard to retain its achieved values.