Asian Scientist worries about cover scholars.

In the 1930s, philosopher Martin Heidegger proposed that we are moving toward an era of the image. Now, whenever we look at mobile phones, computers, TV, books or magazines, we are inundated with images. We might guess, however, that the primacy of text would be preserved in the ivory towers of scientific research.

I used to guess that, then I found myself in grad school.