Media addiction is quietly acknowledged but never discussed, for obvious reasons. It is a "dirty little secret" which could revolutionize every aspect of innovation and marketing if it were known. Such a revolution would have the most beneficial effects on preservation of culture and the easing of social and individual unrest...It gives the reader, for the first time, some means of ascertaining how media do and will affect his life and society and culture. --Eric Mcluhan, Independent Scholar and co-author of The Laws of Media