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We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

The way communication works is changing.

Communicate, communicate, and then communicate some more.

Communication is something we all take for granted.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.