Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.
Marshall McLuhanYouth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.
Marshall McLuhanToday'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 McLuhanWe look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
Marshall McLuhanOur electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.
Marshall McLuhan