Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.

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?

Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.

The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

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

I do not explain, I explore.