We have become like the most primitive Palaeolithic man, once more global wanderers, but information gatherers rather than food gatherers. From now o… - Marshall McLuhan

First we build the tools, then they build us.

Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.

From this application of visual, abstract, and uniform units came our Western feeling for time as duration. From our division of time into uniform, visualizable units comes our sense of duration and our impatience when we cannot endure the delay between events. Such a sense of impatience, or of time as duration, is unknown among nonliterate cultures. Just as work began with the division of labor, duration begins with the division of time, and especially with those subdivisions by which mechanical clocks impose uniform succession on the time sense.