“Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you?”— Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag, amazon.com
“Kate Crawford of MIT and Microsoft urges tech innovators to think about solutions 'as pluralistically as possible.' She'd like to see more platforms develop systems that leave traces of when and why content has been removed or modified—an approach in play at Wikipedia, for instance.”— Catherien Buni, theatlantic.com
“The term 'communication' has had an extensive use in connection with roads and bridges, sea routes, rivers, and canals, even before it became transformed into 'information movement' in the electric age. Perhaps there is no more suitable way of defining the character of the electric age than by first…”— Marshall McLuhan, amazon.com
“The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!”— Noam Chomsky, theguardian.com
“There was a reason the church was the main cultural unifier in Western Europe: it had the best distribution network and the most mass-produced item— the Bible.”— David Shields, amazon.com
“A liberal education today must include reflection on the significance of writing and print, situating these media and all their works in their historically patterned sequences. When we speak of a sequence of media, we do not mean that new media of communications annihilate their antecedents. When me…”— Walter Ong, amazon.com