Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of… — 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
The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus. — 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
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
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
Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 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 can now… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
