As a sort of capsule observation, it could be said that the computer is the LSD of the business world, transforming its outlook and objectives. None of the existing goals of twentieth-century business enterprise can survive the impact of the computer for even ten years. The drop-out is not a phenomenon limited to the high school or the campus, for the higher the executive the more he feels cut off from the real developments of the operation he directs.
War and Peace in the Global Village, 1968, p 83
Just as the Japanese insist that it is not the tea but the ritual that gives meaning, Dr. Kormos [from a New York Times series on prevalent drug taking] suggested that it is the procedure of group Participation and sharing of the drug that lends "a sense of belonging and Identity that may be more important to the student than the effect of the drug."
War and Peace in the Global Village, 1968, p 82
The psychic and social impact of new technologies and their resulting environment will reverse all the characteristic psychic and social consequences of the old technology and its environments.
War and Peace in the Global Village, 1968, p 82