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The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
Marshall McLuhan
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Marshall McLuhan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1911
Born: July 21
Died: 1980
Died: December 31
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
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Edmonton
Alberta
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
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The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.
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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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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.
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The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.
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There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.
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Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.
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Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.
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Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.
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Invention is the mother of necessities.
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