The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world is no longer a dream. - Marshall McLuhan

Today, computers hold out the promise of a means of instant translation of any code or language into any other code or language. (p. 80)

Humor as a system of communications and as a probe of our environment — of what's really going on — affords us our most appealing anti-environmental tool. It does not deal in theory, but in immediate experience, and is often the best guide to changing perceptions.

The invention of printing did away with anonymity, fostering ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property. (p. 122)