When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at

the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

Marshall McLuchan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Message (1967), pp. 74-5

Visualisations of reports of significant actions in the Iraq War from Wikileaks material: http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/dec/16/wikileaks-iraq-visualisation

https://www.georgewbushlibrary.smu.edu/en/Research/Presidential%20Records/Email.aspx

Current web presentation of sample e-mails from the Bush Presidential Library

Principal component analysis of a corpus of 329 scientific texts published between 1530 and 1724, using data from the Text Creation Partnership. The diagrams explores the fluidity of subject and

genre in early scientific discourse, with each colour representing different scientific subjects. From the Visualising Early English Print project. Blog post by Alan Hogsrth on winedarksea.org, December

2015.