“We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.”
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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
