Today, the satellite environment has scrapped the 
entire nature process of the planet. This was not 
the result of an inadvertent blooper but of a 
relentless pressure for more speed of information. 
The resulting increase of environmental information 
has in effect scrapped everything known as human 
organization while at the same time retrieving 
innumerable forgotten forms of human organization 
from the most remote and prehistoric past. The 
things we assumed as the ground  for human 
existence have simply been cancelled.

Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt, Take  
Today: The Executive as Dropout , (New York,