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Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Marshall McLuhan quotes about technology

Canadian Sociologist July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980

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Marshall McLuhan quote: "It is the framework which changes with each new technology and..."
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame. Marshall McLuhan
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan quote: "For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For..."
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. Marshall McLuhan
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan quote: "Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably..."
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. Marshall McLuhan
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way. Marshall McLuhan
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan quote: "Our technology forces us to live mythically"
Our technology forces us to live mythically Marshall McLuhan
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.' Marshall McLuhan
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism. Marshall McLuhan

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