Technology Quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.

— Marshall McLuhan

Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

— Marshall McLuhan

The most human thing about us is our technology.

— Marshall McLuhan

We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.

— Marshall McLuhan

Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.

— Marshall McLuhan

Our technology forces us to live mythically

— Marshall McLuhan

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.

— Marshall McLuhan

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed…

— Marshall McLuhan

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

— Marshall McLuhan

All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

— Marshall McLuhan

Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

— Marshall McLuhan

Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.

— Marshall McLuhan

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp…

— Marshall McLuhan

In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

— Marshall McLuhan

In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology...…

— Marshall McLuhan

Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower…

— Marshall McLuhan

My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand…

— Marshall McLuhan

The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages…

— Marshall McLuhan

If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social…

— Marshall McLuhan

It is always the psychic and social grounds, brought into play by each medium or technology, that readjust the balance of the…

— Marshall McLuhan

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than…

— Marshall McLuhan

The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body…

— Marshall McLuhan

If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and…

— Marshall McLuhan

Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds…

— Marshall McLuhan

With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself.…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Theirs is the customary human reaction when confronted with innovation: to flounder about attempting to adapt old responses to new situations or…

— Marshall McLuhan

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

— Marshall McLuhan

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

— Marshall McLuhan

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

— Marshall McLuhan

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the…

— Marshall McLuhan

The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer…

— Marshall McLuhan

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

— Marshall McLuhan

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

— Marshall McLuhan

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel…

— Marshall McLuhan

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of…

— Marshall McLuhan

Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.

— Marshall McLuhan

When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.

— Marshall McLuhan

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

— Marshall McLuhan

The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.

— Marshall McLuhan

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension…

— Marshall McLuhan