Frequently described as a modern-day Renaissance person, Mihai Nadin has been compared to the German mathematician Leibnitz and to the American Charles Sanders Peirce. For many years, he has been well known to a broad public interested in semiotics as an impressive speaker and innovative thinker whose rich background in the humanities and experience in the visual are matched by his passion for mathematics and his technological insightfulness. A sweeping analysis of the transition from a civilization dominated by the characteristics of literacy to a new civilization of many "literacies." The spectacular but unsettling reality of faster cycles of change, the breakdown of traditional values and institutions, and many other symptoms of technological innovation is the subject of the book.