“Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.”
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The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
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.
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
