A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

… linear instruction is not adequate to a nuclear age. The electronic is not lineal. It is total and field-like in its simultaneous relations. The images that are presented increasingly to you in ordinary living today lack this linear quality that the older kinds of experience and learning manifested. They have become more and more nuclear, global, inclusive.
Culture is Our Business: The Meaning of the New Electronic Media. NAEB journal, December, 1958, p 5
Year: 1958
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