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System Quotes by 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 is a mere…
- The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.
- Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.
- The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
- The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an…
- Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning…
- With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree…
- I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell…
- Art as radar acts as an early alarm system, as it were, enabling us to discover social and psychic targets in lots of time to…
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