"Three new conditions, or clusters of conditions have emerged-- social, technological, and theoretical--and their convergence suggests a new kind of 'core' for the liberal arts."
"First, the radical democratization of higher learning."
"We are required to find really new ways to widen access to the liberal arts withough trivializing them. Digital technology and rhetorical theory offer the new ways we need."
"Digitization makes all the arts interactive, opens them up potentially to the full range of talents that humankind possesses. The people who developed the personal computer considered it a device of radical democratization from its inception. It was a way to open levels of symbolic transformationn, and the work and information that went with them, to people hitherto shut out from this world."
--Lanham, Richard A., The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts (University of Chicago, 1993).