Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity. - Marshall McLuhan

Formal logic and the logical syllogism encapsulate connectedness in reasoning.

War is never anything less than accelerated technological change. (p. 102)

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)