Quote by Marshall McLuhan
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

Other quotes by Marshall McLuhan

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

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Travel
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The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times. – Marshall McLuhan

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Propaganda
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In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. – Marshall McLuhan

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Age
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Other Quotes from
Technology
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The great growling engine of change – technology. – Alvin Toffler

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Technology

I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community. – Boomer Esiason

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Technology

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. – Eric S. Raymond

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Technology

Half of Googles revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo. – Eric Schmidt

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Technology

Random Quotes

The Russians feared Ike. They didnt fear me. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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Fear

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. – George Orwell

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power

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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inspirational

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win. – Bill Williams

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legal