The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way. – Marshall McLuhan
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
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
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