Quote by Marshall McLuhan
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is, of any extension of ourselves – result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. – Marshall McLuhan

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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do todays job with yesterdays tools and yesterdays concepts. – Marshall McLuhan

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Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America – not on the battlefields of Vietnam. – Marshall McLuhan

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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. – Marshall McLuhan

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Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology. – Avi Arad

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Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development. – Aleksander Kwasniewski

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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the days toil of any human being. – John Stuart Mill

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The Internet is a telephone system thats gotten uppity. – Clifford Stoll

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