Looking, listening and reading

The devices through which Canadians absorb words and images, which are the building blocks of culture, are mutating. It is possible to peruse a newspaper, listen to the radio, read a book, mail a letter and watch a movie in front of one single machine: the computer. As Mark Starowicz, executive director of CBC television's documentary production unit, wrote: "The digital revolution... is as fundamental as the Gutenberg press. It will transform both our physical and mental landscape. As television did, it will shape everything from politics to commerce."