40 Observations on Public Discourse
Join me in a thought experiment. Imagine you are imprisoned in a room by a despotic regime and allowed contact with the outside world only through a primitive computer. Called a text-only terminal, the computer lets you send and receive as many written messages as you like. It lets you read as many articles as you like. But it can’t display images ... See more
Kit Wilson • Reading Ourselves to Death — The New Atlantis
In a culture dominated by print, public discourse tends to be characterized by a coherent, orderly arrangement of facts and ideas.