Electronic Technology Electronic texts, Lanham insists, can free us from the illusion that written language is transparent, referential, and real. For example, the iconographic makes a return in the varied fonts and faces available in some word processing systems and in combining word and picture, and animation and sound that the world of digital texts affords. All these changes, Lanham believes, will enable literacy to enfranchise more people, including those who have traditionally benefited as well as those who have been left out. Lanham argues that the dichotomy between a fixed, authoritative printed text and the dynamic, negotiable electronic word reenacts a much older opposition, the ancient debate between the philosophers and the rhetoricians.

Electronic text creates not only a new writing space but a new educational space as well. Richard Lanham