Is it natural that one medium should appropriate 181 PRINT 1. Let us try to discover any area of human action or knowledge unaffected by the forms and pressures of print during the past five centuries. 2. If the forms of print have shaped all the levels of action and organization in the Western world up until the advent of nuclear technology, does this explain and justify the type of stress which we allow to our printed forms in the educational establishment? 3. If a nuclear technology is now succeeding the mechanical print technology of the past five centuries, what problems does such a transition present to the educator? To the political establishment? To the legal establishment? 4. What would happen to the society that did not recognize or identify these problems at all? 5. What happened to medieval education when it failed to understand the nature of print? 6. Consider why anthropology with its pre-literate concerns should have so much in common with post-literate and nuclear forms of communication? 7. How did the uniformity and repeatability of the print production process affect human arrangements in time and in space? 8. Why should the speeding of information flow for the print reader create historical perspective and background? Why should the much slower information flow of the manuscript make such background impossible? 9. Why should the electronic speed of information flow eliminate historical background in favor of “you are there”? 10. Why is homogeneity of space and time arrangement natural under print conditions of learning? 11. Why was it revolutionary for Columbus to assume that he could keep moving in a straight line, in one direction? Why are there no straight lines in medieval maps? Why was it unthinkable for them that space should be continuous and homogeneous? 12. Why should the Columbus pursuit of the straight line in navigation have been necessary in order to discover the round earth? 13. Are the flat-earthers on strong ground in terms of our Western devotion to Euclidean space? 14. In garment-making and hence in clothing styles, the straight seam was impossible before the sewing machine. Trace some of the implications of the straight line and of mechanism in one or more other fields of human organization. 15. How much is our notion of “content” affected in the case of printing by the blank page as filled with moveable type?