The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. - Marshall McLuhan

Radio comes to us ostensibly with person to person directness that is private and intimate, while in more urgent fact, it is really a subliminal echo chamber of magic power to touch remote and forgotten chords. (p. 302).

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. (p. 120)

War has become the environment of our time if only because it is an accelerated form of innovation and education. (p. 381)