A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Today we live on the frontier between five centuries of mechanism and the new electronics, between the homogenous and the simultaneous. It is painful but fruitful.
Gutenberg Galaxy : The Making of Typographic Man, (1962), p 141
Quote #6899
Year: 1962
Chapters: Between Two Ages | From Tribal to Literate | Mechanization | Today’s Transition
↪ Also at #612, #2351, #4423, #6832
Compiled by William Kuhns
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