Starting from the other side ~ "Dream Machines"
"America is the land where the machine is an intimate part of our fantasy life."
": each is a fantasy, an extension of its owner's image of himself in the world."
"Not 'Let a hundred flowers bloom,' but 'Let a hundred gizmos clank.'"
"Are We MATERIALISTIC?: In an important sense this is not so. The machines, and toys, and involvements we buy into, are in but a small proportion of cases owned simply as scores, for their cost as consumption symbols...It's seeking, not to possess, but to belong."
: a special camera that supposedly created a sculpture of what it was pointed at."
"Exercise for the reader: map out properties of the branching and expository structures implicit in [a rather good little movie gadget]. (It's one-directional. Gotta rewind when you get to the end. But you can jump between tracks when it seems appropriate."
"Paper media, whatever their disadvantages, have at least been compatible...I say it will all have to come together again."