What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies which in truth they are.
Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.
Every technology including the printing press comes at some price.
All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store export print or transmit images.
In a way film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.