A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The kind of understanding of social process which Innis achieved is not shared by other historians. Innis is unique in having been the first to apply the possibilities of pattern recognition to a wired planet burdened by information overload.
Foreword to H.A. Innis’s Empire and Communication, 1972 edition, in On the Nature of Media (2016), pp 194-195
Quote #2965
Year: 1972
Chapters: Information Overload | Information Warfare | Innis, Harold Adams | Pattern Recognition
↪ Also at #2985, #2990, #3037, #5295
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