Quote by Marshall McLuhan
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. Theres always more than you can cope with. – Marshall McLuhan

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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. – Marshall McLuhan

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communication
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Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesnt know the first thing about either. – Marshall McLuhan

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Education
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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. – Herbert Simon

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Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless dont even arise. – Jean Baudrillard

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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network. – Peter Russell

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There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album. – Isaac Hanson

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Every time a child says, I dont believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. – James Barrie

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The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true. – George W. Bush

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Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host. – Fred Allen