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| Jobs represent a relatively recent pattern of work. From the fifteenth century to the twentieth century, there is a steady progress of fragmentation of the stages of work that constitute "mechanization" and "specialism." . But under the conditions of | | Jobs | |
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| Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr | | Language | |
| Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. | | America and Americans | |
| Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. | | Uncategorized | |
| Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time. | | Uncategorized | |
| New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual o | | Media | |
| North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social. | | Uncategorized | |
| Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar | | Patriotism | |
| One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor. | | Uncategorized | |
| One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. | | Electricity; Living | |
| Only the vanquished remember history. | | History | |
| Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools. | | Anxiety | |
| Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy. | | Uncategorized | |
| Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems. | | Uncategorized | |
| Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. | | Politicians; Politics | |
| Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose. | | Environment; Profession and professionals | |
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