A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

We have become like the most primitive paleolithic man, once more global wanderers, but information gatherers rather than food gatherers. From now on the source of food, wealth and life itself will be information.
“The Agenbite of Outwit”, 1963, reprinted in Media Research: Technology, Art, Communication, 1997, p. 124
Year: 1963
↪ Also at #2922
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan