What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.

Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.

Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.