Just getting around to reading the NY Times mag from Sunday. There’s a nice article about visual literacy augmenting textual literacy. It’s written by Kevin Kelly, whose blog I also enjoy.

I’m particularly fond of the last sections discussing the changes that have begun to take place.

“As moving images become easier to create, easier to store, easier to annotate and easier to combine into complex narratives, they also become easier to be remanipulated by the audience. This gives images a liquidity similar to words. Fluid images­ made up of bits flow rapidly onto new screens and can be put to almost any use. Flexible images migrate into new media and seep into the old. Like alphabetic bits, they can be squeezed into links or stretched to fit search engines, indexes and databases. They invite the same satisfying participation in both creation and consumption that the world of text does.”