Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

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

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.

At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.

The 'expert' is the man who stays put.