We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.A schoolman's guide to Marshall McLuhan, Saturday Review, March 18, 1967
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Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) was a Canadian philosopher, media theorist, and communication scholar. He is best known for coining the phrase "the medium is the message" and for his work on the effects of mass media on society, predicting the rise of the global village brought on by electronic communication technologies.
1911–1980·lived 69 years
We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.A schoolman's guide to Marshall McLuhan, Saturday Review, March 18, 1967
Art is anything you can get away with.
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
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.'
Affluence creates poverty.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.Advertising Age, Sep. 3, 1976
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.Understanding Media, 1964
The destruction of the letter is the price of the enhancement of the spirit.The Letters of Marshall McLuhan and Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Privacy/Private Matters, p. 42, 2021
I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him - only to bring him to life.What Television Is Doing to Us - And Why, The Washington Post, 1977
That’s all 9 quotes by Marshall McLuhan.