Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.
Marshall McLuhan
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marshall McLuhan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1911
Born: July 21
Died: 1980
Died: December 31
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Edmonton
Alberta
Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Marshall MacLuhan
Marshall Mac Luhan
Produce
Technology
Hemispheric
Technologies
Bias
Users
Regardless
Content
More quotes by Marshall McLuhan
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.
Marshall McLuhan
Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.
Marshall McLuhan
We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.
Marshall McLuhan
Only the vanquished remember history.
Marshall McLuhan
The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
Marshall McLuhan
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
Marshall McLuhan
Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.
Marshall McLuhan
A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.
Marshall McLuhan
Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.
Marshall McLuhan
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.
Marshall McLuhan
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
Marshall McLuhan
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Marshall McLuhan
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
Marshall McLuhan
It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.
Marshall McLuhan
The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.
Marshall McLuhan
We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.
Marshall McLuhan
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
If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?
Marshall McLuhan
In television, images are projected at you. You are the screen. The images wrap around you. You are the vanishing point.
Marshall McLuhan
People don't actually read newspapers - they get into them every morning like a hot bath.
Marshall McLuhan
