I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand whatโs happening. Because I donโt choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, youโre in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something Iโm resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons.
Marshall McLuhanFor the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced.
Marshall McLuhan[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.
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