A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

In this electric age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. That is what is meant when we say that we daily know more and more about man. We mean that we can translate more and more of ourselves into other forms of expression that exceed ourselves. Man is a form of expression who is traditionally expected to repeat himself and to echo the praise of his Creator. "Prayer," said George Herbert, "is reversed thunder. " Man has the power to reverberate the Divine thunder, by verbal translation.
Understanding Media 1964, MIT/Routledge, 57
Year: 1964
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Compiled by William Kuhns
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