MARSHALL McLUHAN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
"Any hot medium allows of less participation than a cool one, as a lecture makes for less participation than a seminar, and a book for less than a dialogue."

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/bas9401.html
''We live mythically and integrally... In the electric age ,when our central nervous system is tecnologically extended to involve in the whole of mankind and to incorporate the whole of mankind in us, we necessarily participate... in the consequences of our every action.''

http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_mcluhan.htm
''Today, after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned.''