Marshall McLuhan Quotes and its meanings

Marshall McLuhan has written on many topics. Some of the topics he has discussed most are as follows;

Age Alone Art Business Car Communication Education Environmental Experience Failure Future Money Nature Politics Society Technology Travel War

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What does Marshall McLuhan write about?

Marshall McLuhan has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about age, alone, art, business, car, communication, education, environmental, experience, failure, future, money, nature, politics, society, technology, travel & war. People always share Age quotes, Alone quotes, art, business, car, communication, education, environmental, experience & failure from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by Marshall McLuhan?

Here are the top most famous quotes by Marshall McLuhan.

  • 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.'
  • Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
  • If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
  • Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
  • Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
  • Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
  • Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
  • The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
  • The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
  • Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.