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Technology Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
- The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.
- Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with…
- 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 medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life.…
- The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard…
- Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by…
- The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.
- Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.
- Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways…
- The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology…
- Technology is that which separates us from our environment.
- In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant…
- All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.
- The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension…
- The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a…
- As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do…
- It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
- The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
- In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
- 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…
- Our technology forces us to live mythically
- The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
More Technology Quotes
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. — Margaret Atwood
- People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make. — Margaret Atwood
- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable. — Diane Ackerman
- I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry… — Diane Ackerman