My favorite Marshall McLuhan quotes

Ripped, mixed and burned by Maarten Cannaerts

Images from www.sxc.hu - Inspired by the book “Probes”

[we have become]

global wanderers information gatherers

rather than food gatherers

Societies have always been

shaped more by the nature of the

media by which humans communicate than by the content of the

communication

The tribalising power of the new media is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the

deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.

Today man has no physical body, he is translated into

information

The metropolis today is a classroom,

the ads its teacher.

The traditional classroom is an

obsolete detention home, a feudal dungeon

School is the advertising agency

which makes you believe you need the society

as it is

The

medium

is

the

message

I don't know

who invented water,

but I know

it wasn't the fish

The specialist is one who

never makes small

mistakes

while moving toward

the grand fallacy

We look at the present through a rear-view

mirror.

We march

backwardsinto the future