It's always difficult to find the first sentence. And with "Discourse Networks" where everything was at stake, namely my profession, it was more diff… - Friedrich Kittler

Printed lame<nowiki/>nts over the death of Man or the subject always arrive too late.

whether or not we personally ever use the typewriter is not important. What is important is that all of us are thrown into the age of typewriting, whether we like it or not. Of course, Heidegger himself preferred to continue his work in his own handwriting.

The day is not far off when signal processing will reach the physical limits of feasibility. This absolute limit is where the history of communication technologies will literally come to an end.. the history of communication technologies as a series of strategic escalations. Without reference to the individual or to mankind, communication technologies will have overhauled each other until finally an artificial intelligence proceeds to the interception of possible intelligences in space.