Screen 23 -- Toward an Evolution--or Should Encourage a Posture of Inquiry

"Being digital requires designing a post-Gutenbergian constructive model of education through vision. But I am not convinced, with Nicholas Negroponte, that a hypermedia future entails obliterating the past. The crux of the matter seems more Darwinian than cataclysmic. Today's instructional landscape must inevitably evolve or die, like biological species, since its environment is being radically altered by volatile visualization technologies" (Visual Pragmatism for a Virtual World 209).