The article, "Digital Communications and the Conduct fo Science: The New Literacy," was written by a man named Joshue Lederberg, a senior member of the IEEE. The author is an enthusiastic user of packet-switched communications, which is a new form of communicating and is called the 'EUGRAM'. The main purpose of this article is to encourage the reader to support EUGRAM systems because it helps ease the utlility of all new scientific knowledge. He also talks about how in due course, the two-way conversation may disappear, to be replaced by messages stored on tape recorders. In another place in the article Lederberg discusses the emergence of the new digital literacy and goes so far to say that, "The author who does not interface directly with his own words with a text-display and editor is missing a powerful and precise organ of expression." This was a well thought out argument and the author does a great job imprinting his views about new digital literage into the article.
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