Just as language itself creates culture in its own image, each new medium of communication re-creates or modifies culture in its image; and it is extreme naïveté to believe that a medium of communication or indeed, any technology is merely a tool, a way of doing. Each is also a way of seeing.
Neil Postman, Conscientious Objections: Stirring up Trouble About Language, Technology, and Education, (Vintage Books 1988), 33