Canadian Heritage committee  That's a very good question, and not necessarily an easy one to answer. As I indicated at the end of my presentation, changing a culture is not an easy thing. The best thing I can suggest is that we need to find a way to impart these skills to our students at both the high school and university levels.

Canadian Heritage committee  [Inaudible--Editor]...the graphic and refer to it when I get.... Anyhow, as I was saying, I am a Canada research chair in digital humanities and an intellectual historian. Both roles lead me to suggest that we now live in a period that is as important as the early 15th century, when Johannes Gutenberg invented the mechanical printing press.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, and thank you for the invitation and for the opportunity to speak here. I’m honoured to receive both. My purpose in coming here today is a simple one. It's to provide a scenario, a forecast that points to two trends that I believe will be central in shaping the evolution of new media.

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Chair, I have several graphics here that are in neither language. I could move forward to those and just skip the slides that are in any particular language. They are important in terms of my presentation.