Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• 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

  Technology, Media, Age

• American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Reality, Voting Age, Political

• The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".

  Marshall McLuhan

  Age, Automation, Characteristics

• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Knowledge, Age, Use

• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Age, Earth, Spaceships

• In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Birthday, Moving, Technology

• The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Character, Science, Age

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Birthday, Jobs, Yesterday

• If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Birthday, Age, Chairs

  1964 UnderstandingMedia.

• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Years, Age

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

• In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Reading, Age, Middle

  Marshall McLuhan (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy”, p.148, University of Toronto Press

• What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Age, Littles

• [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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Photography, Lying, Museums

• In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Innovation, Age, Obsession

  "Innovation is obsolete". Evergreen review, Volume 15, Issues 86-94, Grove Press, (p. 64), 1971.

• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Space

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.155, University of Toronto Press

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