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Grusin's examples of the "technological fallacy"
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"The electronic word democratizes the world of arts and letters."
"Pixeled print calls this basic stylistic decorum [the best style is the style not noticed], and the social ideal built upon it, into question."
"The computer rewrites the history of writing by sending us back to reconsider nearly every aspect of the earlier technologies."
"Electronic texts naturally join themselves into larger and larger structures, into encyclopedias and libraries."
"Electronic writing . . . disperses the subject so that it no longer functions as a center in the way it did in pre-electronic writing."
"Computer writing, instantaneously available over the globe, inserts itself into a non-linear temporality that unsettles the relation to the writing subject."
"Hypermedia linking automatically produces collaboration."
"Hypertext systems, just like printed books, dramatically change the roles of student, teacher, assignment, evaluation, reading list, as well as relations among individual instructors, courses, departments, and disciplines."
