Richard Lanham Richard A. Lanham is professor emeritus of English as UCLA and President of Rhetorica, Inc. He has written ten books, including The Electronic Word. Lanham frequently lectures about the positive effects on the arts and letters. He discusses how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the tools of creativity, and poses anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself.

The movement from book to screen, from fixed print to digital volatility, presents so many surprises, anomalies, opportunities, and dangers that none of us can see how it will play out. Richard Lanham