A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Instead of tending towards a vast Alexandrian library the world has become a computer, an electronic brain, exactly as in an infantile piece of science fiction. And as our senses have gone outside us, Big Brother goes inside. So, unless aware of this dynamic, we shall at once move into a phase of panic terrors, exactly befitting a small world of tribal drums, total interdependence, and superimposed co-existence”.
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, 1962, p 32
Year: 1962
Chapter: Computer
Compiled by William Kuhns
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