147 ordspråk av Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
The rhythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.
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The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
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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.
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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.
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The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.
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The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye; clothing, an extension of the skin, electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system
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The winner is one who knows when to drop out in order to get in touch.
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There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
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There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.
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This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
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Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
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Today the business of business is becoming the constant invention of new business.
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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
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