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"When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result."
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Marshall McLuhan"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."
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
"When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result."
"People never remember but the computer never forgets. (p. 69)"
"It is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behaviour."
"Environments are invisible. Their groundrules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns elude easy perception."
"The press is a group confessional form that provides communal participation. The book is a private confessional form that provides a “point of view.” (p. 204)"
"Cubism (multi-locationalism) is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space."