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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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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. – Marshall McLuhan

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I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, 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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Technology is not neutral. – Godfrey Reggio

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Performance capture is a technology, not a genre its just another way of recording an actors performance. – Andy Serkis

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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. – Reed Hastings

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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. – Aldous Huxley

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