Canadian - Sociologist | July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980
We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan
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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
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I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
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It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
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Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
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Art is anything you can get away with.
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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
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The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
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