A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The very technologies we've been seeing, in the classrooms, a speed up data to a speed where, the end of independent and unrelated facts are unimportant, compared to the patterns between facts, so we move from a world, of mechanically classified and processed data, into a world of pattern recognition and discovery.
Video of a Speech: “Children Of The Future,” 1966 (Youtube); Transcript: 10:21
Year: 1966
Compiled by William Kuhns
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