Marx shared with economists then and since the inability to make his concepts include innovational processes. It is one thing to spot a new product but quite another to observe the invisible new environments generated by the action of the product on a variety of pre-existing social grounds. (p.63)

New technological environments are commonly cast in the molds of the preceding technology out of the sheer unawareness of their designers. (p.47)

Environments work us over and remake us. It is man who is the content of and the message of the media, which are extensions of himself. Electronic man must kno…

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…

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. You are very fond, sir, of talking about the consideration we owe …

'Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutti…

In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It …