A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

… men in the electric age move increasingly to involvement in diverse jobs simultaneously, and to the work of learning, and to the programming of computers. And evangelical zeal is now centered in the department of sales and distribution rather than in preaching. But the scientific structure and moral patterns of the monastic discipline are still intact, so that anybody seeking to understand or modify the religious intensity of modern technology and business has to look closely into these antecedents.
The Mechanical Bride (1951), p 33
Year: 1951
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