"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam."
-Marshall McLuhan
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"In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.“
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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
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"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."
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"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."
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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
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"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology."
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
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