Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.

You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?

Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules.

The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.

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