The Electronic Revolution

Today's technology has fueled an "unstoppable revolution" that is paving the way to the new millennium. "The way humans access and learn information, and the swiftly-changing way that information is packaged, have kindled an electronic revolution far more complex than the liberation of the printed word that occured 500 years ago in middle Europe" (Vaughan xvii). The last important revolution, Gutenberg's printing press, not only liberated the printed word, but also produced a powerful and long-lasting change in the way people obtained information. Its ramifications "far exceeded the imaginations of the era." Multimedia too is changing the way people receive information. It is appropriate wherever "people need access to electronic information of any kind" (Vaughan 10).

A Revolution is taking place in the way humans learn and interact with information.

Tay Vaughan