Themes Some themes will underlie our study. You may already recognize one or two. Others may come as a surprise. They may even be the opposite of what you have thought. For the most part, media separate us from those close to us.
Media break up old neighborhoods and create new ones.
The global village now exists, but we don't want to live there. We just visit it occasionally. Every new means of communication that comes into our lives displaces something else, something that has been of value. One of our goals is for communication to replace transportation, but this may affect the structure of our cities. Part of the current information revolution has been a time revolution, not measured in microseconds and nanoseconds, but in hours.