Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Age
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[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.
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As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.
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My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
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The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.
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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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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.'
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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
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What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.
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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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The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.
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On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else.
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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
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The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".
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In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.
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In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.
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