Both these works have profound things to say about how we experience, retain and communicate infor- mation. Vannevar Bush asserted that it was the privilege and duty of mankind not just to know, to accu- mulate information, but to understand it and make it play. Both of these wonderful works bring us closer to that, not in the sense of revealing their own processes, as Oxana Omelchuk says, but in grasping how things fit together, function together, and ultimately, how we live together. Brian Morton