A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

General Abrams is, like all old-style specialists, a centralist who depends on a hierarchy below him to keep him informed. It has not occurred to him to switch his perceptual activity to pattern recognition in a world of information overload.
“Media and the Inflation CROWD,“ (1973), in MM: The Man and His Message (1989), p 56
Quote #2988
Year: 1973
Chapters: Information Overload | Information Warfare | Pattern Recognition
↪ Also at #2962, #3000, #5291
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