A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

What I wish to show is that today we experience, in reverse, what pre-literate man faced with the advent of writing.
“An Historical Approach to the Media of Communication” (1955), speech given at Columbia University, July 26, 1955, typescript, p 2
Year: 1955
↪ Also at #2359, #2685, #6124, #6851
Compiled by William Kuhns
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