Landow's Third Law of Media — Everybody thinks they want immediacy

Media invented in the last century in one important way behave like older media, which is to say that people today . . . believe the new medium is truer, more accurate, more immediate than older ones, frequently emphasizing that they have advantages of power and truth over writing technologies. — J. David Bolter and Robert Grushin, Remediation

As Derrida urged throughout his writings, we often make the assumption that the speech-paradigm — comunication as presence — is always superior in all situations, which, as we have seen, is obvously false.

What other assumptions about information technology, what other paradigms, do we allow to shape our thinking about education, business, and other aspects of our lives? Well, there is the book . . .