A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The future of language presents the possibility of a world without words, a wordless, intuitive world, like a technological expression of the action of consciousness. E.S.P.
“The Invisible Environment: The Future of an Erosion”, Perspecta, Vol.11, (1967), p 167, reprinted in On the Nature of Media, (2016), p 124
Quote #200
Year: 1967
Chapters: After Language | Future | Harmony | Language | Oft-Cited Quotes
↪ Also at #2398, #2604, #3248, #5115
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