For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced.

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual order what they had though and known before writing. In the same way printing made literature possible. It did not merely encode literature.

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.