A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

It is only since the telegraph that information has detached itself from such solid commodities as stone and papyrus, much as money had earlier detached itself from hides, bullion, and metals, and has ended as paper… Our electric extensions of ourselves simply by-pass space and time, and create problems of human involvement and organization for which there is no precedent. We may yet yearn for the simple days of the automobile and the superhighway.
Understanding Media (1964), MIT/Routledge edition, pp 104-105
Year: 1964
Compiled by William Kuhns
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