Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values

Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.

Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr

The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.