Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

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

The real news is bad news.

Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.

For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced.

All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

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.