Use your radio, but know how to distrust it—and do not let a day go by without reading and meditation if you want to save your soul, that soul which … - Georges Duhamel

M. André Mayer … made an astonishing confidence not long ago. “The laboratories,” he said, “are working at this moment with splendid results. In physics and biology, for example, we can predict new and very important discoveries. What is humanity going to do with the power which will soon be put into its hands? Humanity is not yet ready to receive this power. It is not in a state to make good use of it.” The events of the moment prove that this power, of which we know very little yet, and which is announced to us with such proper reserve, has little chance of serving the cause of man straight away. It will more probably be employed, or rather confiscated, for the benefit of the ambitious, the impudent, and the reckless.

For many people in the future, radio will take the place of an inner life.

Scènes de la vie future (1930), p. 52