World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message — 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
All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when… — 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
If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and… — 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
Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble… — 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
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how… — 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
