The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.

I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt.

What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.