A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Electricity points the way to an extension of the process of consciousness itself, on a world scale, and without any verbalization whatever… Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant translation of any code or language into any other code or language. The computer, in short, promises by technology a Pentecostal condition of universal understanding and unity.
Understanding Media, 1964, in the MIT/Routledge edition, p 80
Year: 1964
Compiled by William Kuhns
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