Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

If it works, it's obsolete.

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

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

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.