We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us… and then our tools ape us.
Anecdotally acquired and possibly not a McLuhan utterance. Obtained from podcaster Gerry Fialka; unless someone can testify to hearing the full line from McLuhan, there is no confirming evidence that McLuhan uttered these words. - Is it from here: LP recording, The Medium Is the Massage, 1967, Side B (MM)
Year: 1967
Chapter:
Tools We Shape, Reshape Us
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan