If Parents Wish To Preserve

It Is Inescapable That Every Culture Must Negotiate With Technology, Whether It Does So Intelligently Or Not. A Bargain Is Struck In Which Technology Giveth And Technology Taketh Away.

As A Culture Moves From Orality To Writing To Printing To Televising, Its Ideas Of Truth Move With It.

The Effects Of Technology Are Always Unpredictable. But They Are Not Always Inevitable.

A Book Is An Attempt To Make Through Permanent And To Contribute To The Great Conversation Conducted By Authors Of The Past. […] The Telegraph Is Suited Only To The Flashing Of Messages, Each To Be Quickly Replaced By A More Up-to-date Message. Facts Push Other Facts Into And Then Out Of Consciousness At Speeds That Neither Permit Nor Require Evaluation. (70)

People In Distress Will Sometimes Prefer A Problem That Is Familiar To A Solution That Is Not.