Marshall McLuhan Quotes about Innovation

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Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

Marshall McLuhan

Innovation, Identity, Quests

Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.

Marshall McLuhan

Innovation, Novelty, Annihilation

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

Marshall McLuhan

Art, Museums, Innovation

Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Barrington Nevitt, Harold Adams Innis (2005). “Marshall McLuhan: The argument: causality in the electric world”