A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

With television both sight and sound were out of the wire and our culture stepped from the grip of mechanization for the first time since the invention of writing, 5,000 years ago.
From his 1955 Report to the Ford Foundation, quoted in W. Terrence Gordon’s Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding (1997), p 163
Quote #6852
Year: 1955
Chapters: From Tribal to Literate | Hardware / Software | Retribalizing | Television | Today’s Transition
↪ Also at #2360, #2557, #6126, #6736, #6838
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