The practice of architecture is and will remain primarily an information system, but architecture within this given phase of modern process is transforming as a result of the radical shift in the conception, production, and communication of ideas and subsystems. The transformation into an electronic culture is as socially and politically significant as the development of written language.
The advent of an alphanumeric system altered the political and social structure due to its ability to disseminate information and create decentralized power structures. The utilization of digital information systems, the concept of information working through the use of numerically controlled processes - allows the individual to move directly from abstraction to object without typical meditation. Historically, to develop a system of a certain complexity, that is a spatial construct which is not easily described by Euclidean geometry or the juxtaposition of the rectilinear and the measured, required an unwieldy amount of information to be transmitted from designer to fabricator, making such projects economically prohibitive. Through the use of the computer and computer-numerically-controlled technologies, this complex information moves directly from idea to product. Due to these technologies the individual obtains increased control relative to the production of ideas. The ability for direct dialogue between virtual and actual provides a substantial  incease in artistic autonomy. With the removal of traditionally mitigating forces in the logistics of architectural production, the onus  of accountability received by the architect becomes greater.