Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.
Marshall McLuhanOnce we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.
Marshall McLuhanAds are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.
Marshall McLuhanScribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.
Marshall McLuhanI expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.
Marshall McLuhan