Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.
Marshall McLuhanThe new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.
Marshall McLuhanWe look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
Marshall McLuhanCanadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.
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