A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

One of the dominant effects of our electric time is the effect of speedup on decision-making and on awareness of innumerable patterns and processes which had been quite undetectable at slower speeds.
“The End of the Work Ethic”(1973) in Media Research (1997), p 106
Year: 1973
Chapter: Speedups
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