"[...] With the decline of verbal language, the importance of the institutions based on it also decline, according to Nadin. Clichés and slogans take the place of literate argument. Visual media replace the newspaper in the current evolution to a post-literate society. What hides behind this phenomenon? Nadin claims that a dynamic process in all areas of life is taking place. Sequential, hierarchical, centralized, and linear processes, embodied in the culture of the West, are being replaced by processes that are distributed and networked. Former centers of control lose their power, which leads to their fighting the dynamic processes that allow for progress. Institutions of higher learning, which should be at the forefront of change, resist these dynamic processes, relying on procedures dating back to the Middle Ages. The loss of the center results in a certain instability that precedes every great change. Nadin believes this instability to be the premise for development and creativity. When institutions can no longer function as machines, then people are free to create dynamic, self-determining, local areas of activity.