Electronics have not only abolished the old
boundaries between nations and the planet, but
between the arts and the sciences.  And if post-literate
men find the psychic price for these adventures
is too high, they will devise new kinds of
social equilibrium such as enabled pre-literate men to fix
their social forms in patterns that sometimes
held for hundreds of thousands of years.

(Media Alchemy in Art and Society, 1958,p.677)