The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.
I'm really interested in the new nonfiction. I think the hyper-digital culture has changed our brains in ways we cannot begin to fathom.
Isn't it strange that as technology advances, the quality of life frequently declines.
The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.
Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.
Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
The machine is a tool. But it is not a neutral tool. We are deeply influenced by the machine while using it.
The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.
At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.
