And until we understand that the forms projected at us by our technology are greatly more informative than any verbal message they convey, we’re going to go on being helpless illiterates in a world we made ourselves.
“A Historical Approach to the Media of Communication” (1955). Two pp. of excerpts from a talk given July 26, 1955, at Teachers College, Columbia University. In Communication Lines (Columbia).
Year: 1955
Compiled by William Kuhns
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© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan