Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
Marshall McLuhanWe have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.
Marshall McLuhanThe past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
Marshall McLuhanThe medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.
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