starting in the late 1970s, he became interested in the cultural side of computer technology, and argued that decentralized data and computer communication were extremely important for art and literature. in 1979 he edited a book on the subject with douglas parkhill, "gutenberg two", on the social and political meaning of computer technology, and he wrote "the telidon book" with ernest chang, about electronic publishing and video text, and founded a software development company called softwords, working in that field. he also worked on computer aided learning.