Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective pub… - Marshall McLuhan

My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. (p. 245)