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«The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Machines,
Technology
| Keywords:
dumb, grim, hearted, machine, Masters, technology, The Machine
«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.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Historians,
Society
| Keywords:
archaeologist, archaeologists, Historians
«The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
electronic, global, global village, independence, re-create, re-created, The Image, village
«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.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Electricity,
Living
| Keywords:
cope, cope with, effects, electric, habitually, overload, overloaded
«In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Conscience,
Technology
| Keywords:
electronic, extension, Information Age, more and more, technological, translated
«Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Anxiety
| Keywords:
jobs, The Age of Anxiety
«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.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Technology
| Keywords:
let go of, spoken word, technology
«The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
commercials, eaten, hood, objection, reared, Red Riding Hood, riding, singing, The Wolf, wolf
«The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.»
«The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Art,
Poets
| Keywords:
adjusted, antisocial, currents, go along, sharpens, sleuth, tends, tends to, trends, well-adjusted
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