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

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

Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.

Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.

Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.