Quote #55

Radio provides a speed-up of information that also causes acceleration in other media. It certainly contracts the world to village size and creates insatiable village tastes for gossip, rumor, and personal malice. (1964)

More from Marshall McLuhan

  1. A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. (1964)
  2. In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin. (1964)
  3. Any technology tends to create a new human environment... Technological environments are not merely passive containers of people but are ac…
  4. Money is the poor man's credit card. (1964)
  5. 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…
  6. We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us (1964)
  7. With the return to simultaneity we enter the tribal and acoustic world once more. Globally. (1956)
  8. There are no remote places. Under instant circuitry, nothing is remote in time or in space. It's now. (1965)

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