While reading text, the eyes are activated while all other senses are quieted. Thinking and intellect, in modern times, have been defined by the ability to understand and create text-based communication. The formal systems that emerged after the invention of printing remade our minds, which remade our society, which again remade our minds.

Questions To Think About When You Reply:

• What happens to the way we construct, interpret, and narrate the world when our senses are redistributed via new communications technologies?
• What does becoming “people of the screen” mean for our embodied and extended minds?
• How does the reintegration of audio and video in our dominant media change our collective intelligence, for better or worse?