A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it. Marshall McLuhan expressmeanthink Change image and share on social
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. Marshall McLuhan affairartcollective share on social
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. Marshall McLuhan artcallgreat Change image and share on social
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. Marshall McLuhan advertiseaimaspiration share on social
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. Marshall McLuhan confusionculturaldespair Change image and share on social
Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning. Marshall McLuhan beginendmean Change image and share on social
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 new way. Marshall McLuhan environmentgraspman Change image and share on social
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. Marshall McLuhan abundanceadvertiseenvironmental Change image and share on social
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. Marshall McLuhan copeeffectelectric Change image and share on social
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. Marshall McLuhan affairconsequenceextension share on social
