The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

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

A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.

Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.

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

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

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.