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Quote by Marshall McLuhan
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media

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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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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As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself. – 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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People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and theres a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day. – Lee Grant

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But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us. – Michael Tilson Thomas

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But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that theyre not just a handy way to address network resources. Theyre also valuable communication tools. – Jesse James Garrett

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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security… and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security. – Warren Rudman

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