Canadian - Sociologist | July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
Marshall McLuhan
TechnologyAgeYourselfAutomation
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
MediaValuesExistInvestArtificial
Money is a poor man's credit card.
MoneyManCreditCredit CardPoor
The medium is the message.
CommunicationMessageMedium
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
DataMoreUsExistBanksLess
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
EducationKnowEntertainmentFirst
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.
ManWorldFeelPersonTouchReal
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
GreatFeelingTransitionDespair
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
LoveTrue LoveHateTrueContempt
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.
AdvertisingHarmonyGoalHumanOut
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
ArtCaveCenturyTwentieth Century
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
SayEverythingAgreeNecessarily
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