For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.

The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

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

Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.

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

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.