For Tribal Man, Space Was The Uncontrollable

Art At Its Most Significant Is A Distant Early Warning System That Can Always Be Relied On To Tell The Old Culture What Is Beginning To Happen To It.

If Men Were Able To Be Convinced That Art Is A Precise Advance Knowledge Of How To Cope With The Psychic And Social Consequences Of The Next Technology, Would They All Become Artist? Or Would They Begin A Careful Translation Of New Art Forms Into Social Navigation Charts? I Am Curious To Know What Would Happem If Art Were Suddenly Seen For What It Is, Namely, Exact Information Of How To Rearrange One's Psyche In Order To Anticipate The Next Blow From Our Own Extended Faculties.

It Is Always The Psychic And Social Grounds, Brought Into Play By Each Medium Or Technology, That Readjust The Balance Of The Hemispheres And Of Human Sensibilities Into Equilibrium With Those Grounds.

The Potential Of Any Technology Is Always Dissipated By Its Users Involvement In Its Predecessors...computer Are Still Serving Mainly To Sustain Precomputer Effects.

The Medium Is The Message" Because It Is The Medium That Shapes And Controls The Search And Form Of Human Associations And Action.