“The challenge of communication does not so much consist in sharing something with the few people I feel close to, but in being able to co-exist with the many people with whom I have no common values or interests. The quick dissemination of messages and information is not enough to make people understand each other better. Transmission and interaction are not synonymous with communication.”
“The global village is a technical reality which demands a political project; indeed the more technology reduces geographical distances, the more cultural gaps loom large and make a humanist project necessary to help people tolerate each other. Information and communication which have constituted an incentive to liberty and progress for centuries, may otherwise become an incentive to war in the 21st century.”
“What is complicated about communication is neither the message nor the technology, but the receptor.”
“One may spend hours with machines, without being able to have satisfactory human and social relationships. Technological progress is not enough to bring about better human and social communication. To set old media against new media is an outdated issue; both should be considered as a whole. The essential part of communication is not on the technological side but on the side of people and societies.”
"L'information
va de plus en plus vite, la communication toujours aussi lentement."
