A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

One way of looking at it would be to say that life in the nineteenth century was permeated by the mechanical, the left hemisphere, but that life in the twentieth century, since the advent of electricity, has gradually taken on the coloration of the right. And most people do not know it. In fact, most corporate executives do not know it except, perhaps (and that is a big "perhaps"), those in the business of manipulating electronic technologies.
The Global Village with Bruce Powers (1989), p 121
Year: 1989
Compiled by William Kuhns
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