Esther Dyson Quotes

A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.

I may be the old-media id, but I think I may be entitled to some credit for being a new-media pioneer.

New media are new archetypes, at first disguised as degradations of older media.

The press deserved the attacks and criticisms of Will Irwin (1910) and Upton Sinclair (1920) and the muckrakers who followed, and it needs today the watchdog and gadfly activities of the new critical weeklies, but all in all it is now a better medium of mass information.... The 1972 Watergate disclosures, it is true, were made by only a score of the members of the mass media, but I remember Teapot Dome when only one of our 1,750 dailies (the Albuquerque Morning Journal) dared to tell the truth about White House corruption. We have come a long way since.

TV is just an incredible media.

Commercials led to TV, and TV led to movies here and there.

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.

We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.

Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people.

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

The time is long overdue for a massive flooding of the earth with the Book of Mormon for the many reasons which the Lord has given. In this age of electronic media and mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.

I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to yellow journalism.

The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.

I'm not sure when the New Media will replace the Old Media, but it will be sooner than later.

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.

You've gotta be dynamic in media. That's the only thing that's gonna work.

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

It's funny, the old media idea is very segmented, like "this is my territory and this is yours." But media is changing. You're at a point now where people can start to move into different forms.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

Social Media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate.

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.