A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The new media… are changing the shape of every social institution, and they compel a rapidity of recognition and adjustment which commensurate with the efficacy of the transmission of information today. In short, they make super-human demands of human nature.
“The Later Innis" Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 60, No 3, Autumn (1953), p 387, reprinted in On the Nature of Media (2016), p 41
Year: 1953
Chapter: Media
Compiled by William Kuhns
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