Our permanent address is tommorrow. - Marshall McLuhan

[On Jimmy Carter] "Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he puts nostalgia in its place."

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.

As forms, as media, the book and the newspaper would seem to be as incompatible as any two media could be. The owners of media always endeavor to give the public what it wants, because they sense that their power is in the medium and not in the message or the program.