A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Spectacles exaggerate or enlarge or enhance the visual function; they obsolesce another function; they retrieve a much older function; and they flip in to the opposite form.
“Living at the Speed of Light”, Speech to U. of So Florida), 1974, in Understanding Me, 2003, p 243
Quote #3329
Year: 1974
Chapter: Laws of Media
Compiled by William Kuhns
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