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

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

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

Marshall McLuhan
Age, Automation, Characteristics

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

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”

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

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

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

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.

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"Innovation is obsolete".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.

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