Who is Marshall Mcluhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life.McLuhan coined the expression "the medium is the message" in the first chapter in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man and the term global village. He even predicted the World Wide Web almost 30 years before it was invented. He was a fixture in media discourse in the late 1960s, though his influence began to wane in the early 1970s. In the...
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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.'
- Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
- If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
- American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
- In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
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Masa_kepic: we look at the present through a rear-view mirror. // marshall mcluhanAnniemariebarry: "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
Cocotaquechel: “we become what we behold. we shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” ― marshall mcluhan
C323chelagat: the photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.,marshall mcluhan,purpose, strange, now ,
M_t_prewitt: amazing exchange between marshall mcluhan and norman mailer on technology and value judgments.
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