Electronic Technology Richard Lanham sees the computer as revolutionizing the structure of communication. He envisions the day when electronic texts will develop into a more widely acceptable medium of expression. Landham regards electronic technology as a liberating and democratizing medium. The electronic word, especially because it combines graphical and texual qualities, allows readers to clearly see what print has obscured, namely what Lanham calls a "bipolar decorum," a fluctuation between a text's style and its content or form. The electronic word, according to Lanham, challenges all our assumptions about artistic, educational, and political discourse. Lanham believes that the current shift toward electronic text is not so much driving changes as it provides the means for the changes in the postmodern ideals of plurality and democracy. Also, he anticipates a fusion of oral and literate culture in the multimedia nature of computer communications.