If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

The media have substituted themselves for the older world.

Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

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

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.