Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
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We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
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I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
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