A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

[An assumption] is an idea that outlives its uselessness.
Quoted by Edmund Carpenter in “That Not So Silent Sea” (1993), in The Virtual McLuhan by Donald Theall (2001), p 245
Quote #6248
Year: 1993
Chapter: Satirist
Compiled by William Kuhns
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