A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

That, whether verbalized or not, is the message and the logic, not of the mechanical age just past, but of the electronic age in which we stand as primitives of an underdeveloped and unknown culture.
“The Humanities In The Electronic Age” (1961), Reprinted as McLuhan Unbound # 7, (2005), p 7
Quote #6948
Year: 1961
Chapters: Dropout | Electric, Electronic | He’s Hopeful | Living Unity | McLuhanisms & Zingers | Retribalizing | Today’s Transition
↪ Also at #1888, #1934, #2661, #4135, #4245, #6132, #6172, #6954
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