For us, "literacy" has carried a weight of implication, an extension far beyond any technical definition. Ours have been, above all else, civilizations and communities of the word; sentences found and inhabit our cities.
During
the Renaissance, humanists led the educational reforms associated with
the rise of literacy and the new technology of the press. Humanists today
are no less responsible for developing the educational potential of the
new technologies of memory and communication.
I would like us to participate in the invention of a style of thought as powerful and productive as was the invention of conceptual thinking that grew out of the alphabetic apparatus. I want to learn how to write and think electronically - in a way that supplements without replacing analytical reason.
The
library is desolation, it has a smell
of its own/of stagnation and death.
