This paper is informed by Jo Stockham work as an artist using maps, ground-plans and anatomical images, and associatively mapping the relations between parts via installations, a process of embodying the diagrammatic. Experience of running the print programme at the RCA for almost 10 years informs her sense of the ways digitisation has shifted and expanded the field of print. Universities are investing in vast management databases, and digitising archives, often clearing out older technologies and documents to make way for them. But as the myths of the freedom of the web collapse around us, with the exposure of the narrow interests served, is our perpetual state of distraction and information-gathering distancing us from the world at large even as it connects us?