Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Life without power is death.

Mysterious affair, electricity.

Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster?

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have.

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

Fairness is a central issue, Greely said. What if some people have access to the technology and others don't? There will certainly be international disparities, and possibly national ones as well.

Industrial forces set in motion by steam and electricity have materially changed the structure of our civilization.

The force of microelectronics will blow apart all of the monopolies, hierarchies, pyramids and power grids of established industrial society.

It may well be true that, as a former cabinet member, I had better access than some.

The ... progress of improvement and discovery ought not to be overlooked. ... Philosophy already directs her finger at sources of inexhaustible power. ... We are on the eve of mechanical discoveries still greater than any which have yet appeared.

A lot of the foundational philosophical approaches of tech leaders are actually all about decentralization of power.

Energy powers our economy, both literally and figuratively.