All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.
Marshall McLuhanWe have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.
Marshall McLuhanA new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.
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