A book of the known German theorist of medias Siegfried Цилински (family. 1951) is this historical research of co-operation of technologies, art and science, in that an author suggests to revise understanding of medias as a "complex of the interactive difficult technical and cultural systems", arising up, according to in the everyday use presentation, in the west only in the second half of the XX century.Like geologists and paleontologists, Цилински works with by the "deep layers" of usual conceptions and research developments, calling to the phenomena of medias, by an antecedent to the industrial epoch.