Gutenberg Galaxy Quotes

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing;

Language is metaphor in the sense that it not only stores but translates experience from one mode into another. Money is metaphor in the sense that it stores skill and labour and also translates one skill into another.

they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

That outering or uttering of sense which is language and speech is a tool which “made it possible for man to accumulate experience and knowledge in a form that made easy transmission and maximum use possible.

Starting in the 1940s, we began coating glass with phosphor and firing electrons at it, creating the hypnotic images of television. Within a few years, sociologists and media theorists were declaring that we had become a “society of the image,” the literate Gutenberg galaxy giving way to the blue glow of the TV screen and the Hollywood glamour shot. Those transformations emerged out of a wide range of innovations and materials, but all of them, in one way or another, depended on the unique ability of glass to transmit and manipulate light.

Wenn du eine Verbindung zu etwas oder zu jemandem herstellst, dann verlierst du eine Verbindung zu etwas oder jemand anderem.