The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrica… - Marshall McLuhan

The potential of any new technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors. (p. 210)

If we sit and talk in a dark room, words suddenly acquire new meanings and different textures...and on the radio. Given only the sound of a play, we have to fill in all of the senses, not just the sight of the action. So much do-it-yourself, or completion and “closure” of action, develops a kind of independent isolation in the young that makes them remote and inaccessible.” (p. 264)

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions