A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

In the Eighties, as we transfer our whole being to the data bank, privacy will become a ghost or echo of its former self, and what remains of community will disappear.
“Living at the Speed of Light” (1979), typescript p 6
Year: 1979
Chapters: Education | Privacy
↪ Also at #1835
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