I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world ' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology but we are behind in empathy.
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is of any extension of ourselves – result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves or by any new technology.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.