Superb article. It takes me back, way back. Merci for the reference.
But if "In the end, there really is only literacy", then the reference to "a very steady rate of speed"* should be corrected — since rate of speed is an acceleration and the usage here is sub-literate.
* "I remember when I was about five or six, someone projected a 16mm cartoon and I was allowed to look inside the projector. I saw these little still images passing mechanically through the gate at a very steady rate of speed [sic]."
Me too.
