War is never anything less than accelerated technological change. (p. 102) - Marshall McLuhan

With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.