Kevin Kelly: We are becoming people of the screen

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“We are becoming people of the screen. The fluid and fleeting symbols on a screen pull us away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authority. On the 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 assemble 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 to screen fluency, from literacy to visuality.”

Kevin Kelly – Becoming Screen Literate on NYTimes

 


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