Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

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.

Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.

Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.

Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.