These ever-present screens have created an audience for very short moving
pictures, as brief as three minutes, while cheap digital creation tools have
empowered a new generation of filmmakers, who are rapidly filling up those
screens
We are headed toward screen ubiquity
Once, long ago, culture revolved around the spoken word
Then, about 500 years ago, orality was overthrown by technology
elevated writing into a central position in the culture.
printing instilled in society a reverence for precision (of black ink on white
paper), an appreciation for linear logic (in a sentence), a passion for
objectivity (of printed fact) and an allegiance to authority (via authors),
whose truth was as fixed and final as a book. In the West, we became people of
the book.
We are becoming people of the screen
On the screen, the subjective again trumps the objective
truth is something you assemble yourself
from literacy to visuality
clipped from: www.nytimes.com 
