Will Marshall
Will Marshall
Will Marshall is one of the founders of the New Democrat movement, which aims to steer the US Democratic Party toward a more conservative orientation. Since its founding in 1989, he has been president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council...
time culture mediums
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.
time space principles
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.
mother business invention
Invention is the mother of necessities.
business ideas viruses
In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.
men politics great-men
There is no more great men; there is only great committees.
vision operations critical
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
intelligent technology light
The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.
educational independent technology
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
mistake moving knowledge
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
artist creative lasts
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
technology patterns action
The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.
past problem easy
Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones
environmental development patterns
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.
men bridges media
The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.