“Our technology forces us to live mythically”

“With the arrival of electric technology, man has 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 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. ”

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

“All media work us over completely.”

“First we build the tools, then they build us.”

“Our permanent address is tommorrow.”

“Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.”