The fovea (the center of the eye's vision) suggests we have a limited range with which to encrypt ideas via an alphabetical, linear page-based horizon, but this is merely mezzanine-thinking. Videogames, movies and earlier glyphic-expansive storytelling of meso-america suggest peripheral vision can add discriminating levels of data to our simplified and lazy text-storytelling. Next stop?

A new book by cog scientist Dehaene continues the debate between text innateness thinkers like Chomsky and his alternates.