A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

As a sort of capsule observation, it could be said that the computer is the LSD of the business world, transforming its outlook and objectives. None of the existing goals of twentieth-century business enterprise can survive the impact of the computer for even ten years. The drop-out is not a phenomenon limited to the high school or the campus, for the higher the executive the more he feels cut off from the real developments of the operation he directs.
War and Peace in the Global Village, 1968, p 83
Year: 1968
↪ Also at #1000, #1305, #1623, #7074
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