The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.

Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.