Quote #61
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. (1967)
More from Marshall McLuhan
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- 'The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.' (1969)
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- We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us (1964)
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- What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software. (1971)