More from Marshall McLuhan

  1. In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin. (1964)
  2. We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us (1964)
  3. Radio provides a speed-up of information that also causes acceleration in other media. It certainly contracts the world to village size and…
  4. There are no remote places. Under instant circuitry, nothing is remote in time or in space. It's now. (1965)
  5. A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. (1964)
  6. Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity. (1967)
  7. Any technology tends to create a new human environment... Technological environments are not merely passive containers of people but are ac…
  8. Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. (1967)

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