Today as we move swiftly into the new integral and organic age of electronic circuitry, the learned are in the habit of lamenting our increasing mechanization and our ever more complete subjugation to the mechanical principle. In this regard they are not unlike Malthus who, on the threshold of the new age of man’s production, enunciated the principle of scarcity as the law of nations.
“Electronic Man and the End of the Neolithic Age”, Speech given at University of Florida, October 28, 1965, in “McLuhan Speaks” transcript, p 1
Year: 1965
Chapter:
Hostility to McLuhan
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan