Age Quote by Marshall McLuhan

Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

— Marshall McLuhan

“The 90’s map the decades to come – full of invisible technologies that will ‘sub-contract’ many of the functions of the central nervous system.”

— J.G. Ballard

“small samples of people operating under special circumstances, and the long-term effects and hazards are completely unknown. However, if the technology does mature, or…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.

— Daniel Dennett

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved…

— Martha Beck

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

— Tom Stoppard

“Human nerves are the life-circuit of society.”

— Abhijit Naskar

That's the case with these exponential technologies; our brains, they struggle with it. We live in a world that is global and exponential, and…

— Jason Silva

What the interconnected age in which we live allows us to do is instantly connect with each other.

— Heather Brooke

I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain…

— Edward Boyden

“The human brain is the most complex entity in the universe. It has between fifty and one hundred billion nerve cells, or neurons, each…

— Gabor Maté

“Scientists used to think the brain reached maturity around the age of 25 years and then deteriorated. Now we know it’s much more like…

— Matt Lewis