The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
- Marshall McLuhan
More Quotes By Marshall McLuhan
- All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
- World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
- There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
- All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral,...
- As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is...
- Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it’s just the beginning.
- Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
- Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness...
- The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the...
- The computer is the most extraordinary of man’s technological clothing; it’s an extension of our central nervous system....
- We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
- The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to...
- In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.
- People hope that if they scream loudly enough about “values” then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive...
- Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn’t...
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