Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.
Marshall McLuhanIn television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.
Marshall McLuhanComputers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.
Marshall McLuhanIf people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?
Marshall McLuhan