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Marshall McLuhan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1911
Born: July 21
Died: 1980
Died: December 31
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
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What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.
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Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
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Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.
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The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.
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There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.
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The mother tongue is propaganda.
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People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.
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We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
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Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.
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Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
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The 'expert' is the man who stays put.
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Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.
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On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else.
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Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.
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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
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The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.
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At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.
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It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head.
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Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence.
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Work does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
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