The future of work consists of learning a living.

Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening