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The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
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The social practices of one generation tend to get codified into the “game” of the next.
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It is only since the telegraph that information has detached itself from such solid commodities as stone and papyrus.
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Most of our body stresses are interpreted as needs for extending storage and mobility functions.
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Failure in perception occurs precisely in giving attention to the program “content” of our media while ignoring the form.
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Each new technology is a reprogramming of sensory life.
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We are in danger of wiping out our entire investment in the preelectric technology… by means of an indiscriminate use of electrical energy
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The new environment is constantly pushing the old into archetypal form.
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With the arrival of electric technology, man extends, or set outside himself, a live modal of the central nervous system itself.
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The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.
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We often create artificial situations that rival the irritations and stresses of real life under controlled conditions of sport and play.
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The stimulus to new invention is the stress of acceleration of pace and increase of load.
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A game is a machine that can get into action only if the players consent to become puppets for a time.
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...Art is the displacement of percepts by the super-real to expose the hidden ground and to bypass the premises that block breakthroughs...
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Movable type introduced the means of mechanizing any handicraft by the process of segmenting and fragmenting an integral action.
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Perhaps the supreme quality of print is one that is lost on us, since it has so casual and obvious an existence.
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The paperback itself has become a vast mosaic world in depth.
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Any innovation threatens the equilibrium of existing organization.
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Throughout Western history we have traditionally and rightly regarded letters as the source of civilization.
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