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The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to

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

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Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression. – Marshall McLuhan

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Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. – Marshall McLuhan

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Its so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world. – Lynn Samuels

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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology. – Barry Commoner

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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. – Elbert Hubbard

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And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years. – Gianni Agnelli

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