In a sense, we are standing at the foot of the wall of time. We have realized absolute speed on a global plane - and not only through broadcasting or the telephone, but in many other ways as well, and this will encompass all auditory sense, all sight, all tactile power. It includes also remote control mechanisms, and the possibilities of whole cities interacting with each other. History is simply smashing into the wall of time. On one hand, it is a very positive thing because it enables humanity to be brought together.
Totalitarianism is latent in technology.
It was not merely Hitler or Mussolini who were totalitarian, or the Pharaohs as far as I am concerned. Totalitarianism is already present in the technical object. This because information itself has become an absolute power with totalitarian features. We face a duplication of reality. We now have the possibility of seeing at a distance, of hearing at a distance, and of acting at a distance, and this results in a process of de-localization, of the unrooting of the being.