Our new computer world is an extension of our nervous system int… — The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine, Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals, 1967, full transcript of a seminar at the City Museum of New York, October, 1967, edited by William Buxton, published by U. of Alberta Press, 2026, p 104

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Our new computer world is an extension of our nervous system into a total environment, not just around the planets but around the cosmos. What the muse of the computer will be, heaven knows. But the muses are the human faculties, mental, spiritual, sensory, extended out into the environment. A museum is then, presumably, a collection of all of them into a kind of consciousness.

The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine, Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals, 1967, full transcript of a seminar at the City Museum of New York, October, 1967, edited by William Buxton, published by U. of Alberta Press, 2026, p 104

Quote #4834

Year: 1967

Chapters: Museum | Computer | Extension Theory

↪ Also at #2242, #1303