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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The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. – Marshall McLuhan

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As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action. – Shoshana Zuboff

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Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before. – Ron Kind

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The human condition today is better than its ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that. – Tom Clancy

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I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place? – Robert M. Gates

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