The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement. Marshall McLuhan More Quotes by Marshall McLuhan More Quotes From Marshall McLuhan When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth. Marshall McLuhan recognitionpatternsinformation Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth. Marshall McLuhan technologymensex One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. Marshall McLuhan informationmediainspirational If it works, it's obsolete. Marshall McLuhan creativityhard-workideas It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it Marshall McLuhan realizingartistuse Invention is the mother of necessities. Marshall McLuhan inventionbusinessmother Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity. Marshall McLuhan lightidentityattention With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism. Marshall McLuhan suicidaltechnologymen The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati. Marshall McLuhan despisedbeltsterritory To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name. Marshall McLuhan camerasnameslying I do not explain, I explore. Marshall McLuhan exploration Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules. Marshall McLuhan scheduleseducationalchildren Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice. Marshall McLuhan growing-upeducationchildren Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter. Marshall McLuhan expendableseducationworld If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties. Marshall McLuhan technologyblowart All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors. Marshall McLuhan errorswisdomart Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram Marshall McLuhan mindamericaart When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems. Marshall McLuhan gamesmeanhands Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning. Marshall McLuhan teachingdoeschool Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force. Marshall McLuhan anticipationgivingmoving
