The system produces needs faster than it can satisfy them.

系统产生需求的速度比满足需求的速度更快。

In the future, people will no longer be alienated by their labor, but by their leisure.

在未来，人们将不再被劳动异化，而是被休闲异化。

The mass media are anti-mediatory and intransitive. They fabricate non-communication—this is what characterizes them, if one agrees to define communication as an exchange, as a reciprocal space of a speech and a response, and thus of a responsibility.

大众媒体是反中介和不及物的。它们制造非交流——这是它们的特征，如果人们同意将交流定义为一种交换，一种言语和回应的相互空间，因而也是一种责任的空间。

We are in a universe where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

我们处在一个信息越来越多，意义却越来越少的世界。