Quote #50
The perfection of the means of communication has given [the] average power complex of the human being an enormous extension of expression. (1953)
More from Marshall McLuhan
- Concepts are a provisional affair. (1951)
- With the return to simultaneity we enter the tribal and acoustic world once more. Globally. (1956)
- Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either
- Man the tool-making animal, whether in speech or in writing or in radio, has long been engaged in extending one or another of his sense org…
- First Man made the hammer, then the hammer made the Man.
- Any technology tends to create a new human environment... Technological environments are not merely passive containers of people but are ac…
- Rene Levesque looks like a distressed seminarian.
- A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. (1964)