There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
~ Marshall Mcluhan
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.'
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
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.
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
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.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
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.
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
Money is just the poor man's credit card.
Affluence creates poverty.
Money is a poor man's credit card.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
