Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.

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.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.