A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

[Data processing] will, of necessity, produce a new kind of tribal man in the original corporate, or group, sense; the kind of person who has survived the excesses of left-hemisphere thinking and who will have retained his respect for the group awareness of the right hemisphere. But such a mutation will take at least a quarter of a century. He or she will be the psychic precursor of the twenty-first century ethos, which will be largely lived imaginatively on the planet’s surface and in outer space.
The Global Village with Bruce Powers, 1989, p 92
Year: 1989
Chapters: Computer | Future | Retribalizing
↪ Also at #2413, #6137, #6164
Compiled by William Kuhns
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