Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“By the way, goals and objectives are meaningless at the speed of light. At the speed of light, you aren’t going somewhere,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
“The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among youth, of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral)… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
