Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visual, electronic world in the language of the visual world of Newton.

... Their power to see environments as they really are.

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

As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.

When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.