There is no question here of values. It is simple information technology being used by one community to reshape another one. It is this type of aggression that we exert on our own youngsters in what we call "education". We simply impose upon them the patterns that we find convenient to ourselves and consistent with the available technologies. Such customs and usages, of course, are always past-oriented and the new technologies are necessarily excluded from the educational establishment until the elders have relinquished power. This, of course, leaves the new technologies entirely in the sphere of entertainment and games. (149) - Marshall McLuhan, War and Peace in the Global Village
A meaningless jumble of shapes defies description, until the demonstrator has drawn on paper one or the other specific shapes to be searched for. The saying "seeing is believing" may fittingly be reversed in this context into "believing is seeing". - Otto Lowenstein
New environments inflict considerable pain on the perceiver. Biologists and physicists are much more aware of the radical revolution effected in our senses by new technological environments than are the literati, for whom the new environments are more threatening than for those in other disciplines. - Marshall McLuhan, War and Peace in the Global Village
To raise productivity (and wealth), raise connectivity. It's that simple. - Iqbal Quadir
