Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.
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For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.Marshall McLuhan
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.
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A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.
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We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.
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We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.
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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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