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"Chinese script is not visual but iconic and tactile. It does not disturb the tribal bonds. (p. 72)"
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Marshall McLuhan"We begin again to structure the primordial feelings...from which 3000 years of literacy divorced us. We begin again to live a myth. (p. 17)"
Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Raised in Winnipeg, McLuhan studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained f
"Chinese script is not visual but iconic and tactile. It does not disturb the tribal bonds. (p. 72)"
"When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result."
"It is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behaviour."
"Environments are invisible. Their groundrules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns elude easy perception."
"We now live in a technologically prepared environment that blankets the earth itself. The humanly contrived environment of electric information and power has begun to take precedence over the old environment of "nature." Nature, as it were, begins to be the content of our technology."
"People never remember but the computer never forgets. (p. 69)"