And until we understand that the forms projected at us by our technology are greatly more informative than any verbal message they convey, we���re going to go on being helpless illiterates in a world we made ourselves.
“A Historical Approach to the Media of Communication” (1955). Two pp. of excerpts from a talk given July 26, 1955, at Teachers College, Columbia University. In Communication Lines (Columbia).
Year: 1955
Compiled by William Kuhns
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