In the name of progress, our official culture is striving to force the new media to do the work of the old.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by disc

Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.

The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.

All media work us over completely.