Our 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 McLuhanThe medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action.
Marshall McLuhanWhat is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.
Marshall McLuhan