Free Your Mind


Sanette raises a crucial point. Imaging can be maddening. So what happens when we no longer need to construct images? When they're all laid out before us on the screen? Will some portion of our brain shrivel up and die from neglect?

For one thing, description will no longer burder the reader. Description will be a thing of the past. Unless, of course, the author decides that the description is more powerful than the visual representation. The author has that choice to make.

(Yet another reason why hypertext/media is the future.)