The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

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

Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.