Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Speed

Quotes about: Speed

• Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Light, People

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.268, McClelland & Stewart

• Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Identity, Attention

  "The Education of Mike McManus" (TV Ontario), December 28, 1977.

• Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Speed, Mass

  "Access", Issues 165-176, National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting, (p. xxiii), 1984.

• The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of hisextended nervous system (which we call the "electronic world") by intensifying the activity of his inner nervous system.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Effort, World

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). “The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media”, p.93, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Sex, Elements, Boring

• At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Limits, Speed

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, p. 109, 1988.

• Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Speed, Speed Of Light

  "On McLuhan: Forward Through the Rearview Mirror". Book by Frank Zingrone and Marshall McLuhan (p. 101), 1997.

• Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Space, Light, Information

• Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Moving, Feet, Ease

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

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