The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones

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.

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.