A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

But in the case of environments that are created by new technologies, while they are quite invisible in themselves, they do tend to make visible the old environments. We can always see the Emperor's old clothes, but not his new ones.
The M Is the M (1967), p 163
Year: 1967
↪ Also at #2023, #4606
Compiled by William Kuhns
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