"But Rashdall is right in considering the oral man to be a barbarian. For technically the "civilized" man is, whether crude or stupid, a man of stron… - Marshall McLuhan

By the way, goals and objectives are meaningless at the speed of light. At the speed of light, you aren’t going somewhere, you’re already there. On the telephone you’re not going somewhere, you’re there. And in the electronic world, going somewhere, you’re there. And in the electronic world, there are no goals or objectives, we’re already there.
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The difference between the man of print and the man of scribal culture is nearly as great as that between the non-literate and the literate.

The stock market was created by the telegraph and the telephone, and its panics are engineered by carefully orchestrated stories in the press. (p. 106)