Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening. ... The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.

I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.

Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

First we build the tools, then they build us.

The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.