The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire.

TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing.

Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.

The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message