Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Science, Technology, Data

  Marshall McLuhan, Wilfred Watson (1970). “From cliché to archetype”, Viking Adult

• The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Science, Technology, Car

  Understanding Media (1964) p. 217

• It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Media, Framework

• Our technology forces us to live mythically

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Force

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

• We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Robots, Involved

  Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan (2017). “The Lost Tetrads of Marshall McLuhan”, p.99, OR Books

• The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Impact, Messages

• 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

• The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Men, Hula

• The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Media, Messages

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

• With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Suicidal, Technology, Men

  "Understanding media: the extensions of man".

• The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Intelligent, Technology, Light

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan”

• Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Technology, Men

• 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

• Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Educational, War, Independent

  1964 UnderstandingMedia, ch.33.

• Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Sex, Technology, Men

• If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Psychics

• The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Politics, Computer

• Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Science, Technology, Environment

• The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Letting Go, Technology, Men

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

• All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Media

• Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Thinking, Force

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

• If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Blow, Technology

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

• Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Men, Print

  Marshall McLuhan (1962). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.1, University of Toronto Press

• Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Stress, Mean, Technology

  Marshall McLuhan, Michel Moos (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.124, Routledge

• When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Long, Anxiety

  Marshall McLuhan (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.125, Routledge

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