Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else.

The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.

The real news is bad news.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.