Life. Consider the alternative.

The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.

Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose. The professional tends to classify and specialise, to accept uncritically the groundrules of the environment. The groundrules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware. The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.