A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

We relate ourselves to these [technologies] as servo-mechanisms. That is why we must, to use them at all, serve these objects, these extensions of ourselves, as gods of minor religions. An indian is the servo=-mechanism of his canoe, as the cowboy is of his horse or the executive of his clock.
McLuhan Hot and Cool (1967), p 197
Year: 1967
↪ Also at #4488, #7005
Compiled by William Kuhns
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