A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

“When information moves at the speed of signals in the central nervous system, man is confronted with the obsolescence of all earlier forms of acceleration, such as road and rail. What emerges is a total field of inclusive awareness. The old patterns of psychic and social adjustment become irrelevant”
Understanding Media (1964), MIT/Routledge edition, p 104
Year: 1964
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