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

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.

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

Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

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

My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.