Quotes from McLuhan
The message of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs. The railway did not introduce movement or transportation or wheel or road into human society, but it accelerated and enlarged the scale of previous human functions, creating totally new kinds of cities and new kinds of work and leisure. This happened whether the railway functioned in a tropical or northern environment, and is quite independent of the freight or content of the railway medium.
With telephone and TV it is not so much the message as the sender that is “sent.”Invention is the mother of necessities.
All advertising advertises advertising.
At the speed of light, policies and political parties yield place to charismatic images.