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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Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a persons car is the only place where he can be alone and think. – Marshall McLuhan

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The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. – Marshall McLuhan

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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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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. – Ursula K. LeGuin

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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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