Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.