Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

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

[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.

Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

All media work us over completely.

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.