You tend to go looking for mythic and structural forms in order to manage such complex data, moving at very high speeds, so the electric engineers often speak of pattern recognition as a normal need of people processing data electrically and by computers and so on. It´s a need which the poets foresaw a century ago in their drive back to mythic forms of organizing experience.
“The Future of Man in the Electric Age” (1965), in Understanding Me (2003), p 63
Year: 1965
Chapters:
Myth, Mythic | Pattern Recognition
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Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan