Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
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
My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad… — 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
