Hypnotized by their rear-view mirrors, philosophers and scientists alike tried to focus the figure of man in the old ground of nineteenth-century industrial mechanism and congestion. They failed to bridge from the old figure to the new. It is man who has become both figure and ground via the electrotechnical extension of his awareness. With the extension of his nervous system as a total information environment, man bridges art and nature. (p.11)

In this book we turn to the study of new patterns of energy arising from man's physical and psychic artifacts and social organizations. The only method for per…

By involving all men in all men, by the electric extension of their own nervous systems, the new technology turns the figure of the primitive society into a un…

Disarmament is illogical and futile, unless one is prepared to regard the available means of production and social organization as affording unique social ends…

Literacy remains even now the base and model of all programs of industrial mechanization; but, at the same time, locks the minds and senses of its users in the…

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.