A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

…they [electric media] are a very nervous system! When you put an electric system as field around you, you enlarge your own nervous system.
“Technology and the Human Dimension” (interview with Louis Forsdale), 1974, in The Man and his Message, 1989, p 12
Quote #6924
Year: 1974
Chapters: Extension Theory | Today’s Transition
↪ Also at #2173
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