A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

[The] computer… [is] the only technology that lives on, and produces, the same material.
“All the Stage Is a World In Which There Is No Audience”, in Innis Herald, Vol. 11, number 5, April, 1978, p 24

Any process that approaches instant interrelation of a total field tends to raise itself to the level of conscious awareness, so that computers seem to "think". In fact, they are highly specialized at present, and quite lacking in the full process of interrelation that makes for consciousness.
Understanding Media (1964), MIT/Routledge edition, p 351
Year: 1964
Chapter: Computer
Compiled by William Kuhns
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