The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.

There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.

One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

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

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

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.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.