Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.
Marshall McLuhanThe student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.
Marshall McLuhanToday's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules.
Marshall McLuhanWhat is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.
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 McLuhan