Excerpt from”Becoming Screen Literate”: Kevin Kelly

‘A new distribution-and-display technology is nudging the book asisde and catapulting images, and especially moving images, to the center of the culture. We are becoming people of the screen. The fluid and fleeting symbols on a screen, the subjective again trumps the objective. The past is a rush of data streams cut and rearranged into a new mashup, while truth is something you assembe yourself on your own screen as you jump from link to link. We are now in the middle of a second Gutenberg shift – from book fluency, from literacy to visuality.’Kevin KellyExcerpt from “Becoming Screen Literate”: New York Times magazine, November 21, 2008.