But the language of industrialized areas has lost its oral quality and oral rhythms and seems to be incapable of translating the new sounds of technology or humanizing the new sounds through that language.
“Art as Survival in the Electric Age” (1973), in Understanding Me, (2003), p 217
Year: 1973
Chapter:
Language
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan