The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

Our technology forces us to live mythically

Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.