Marshall McLuhan Quotes

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Technology's become the great prism for what's going on in the world.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

Warfare evolves. It changes as a result of technology. It changes as the culture changes.

The locomotive is coming into contact with the framework of our institutions. In this country of simple government, the most powerful civilizing force which civilization has yet produced must … assume its relation to that political machinery which is to control and regulate it.

… post-industrial society

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

Every ideology and mode of belief can, if true, implement itself by using the resources of technology and above all those of the media without having to resort to violence. In other words, violence has become unnecessary. In fact things have got to the point where violence cannot be afforded.

Technology has become our culture

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilization. For them, such a charge is worse than that of crime.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

… the telephone was only a convenience permitting Americans to do more orally and with less effort than what they had been doing before.

The coming of the wireless Era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.

We are living in the jet-age, but we are governed by an Edwardian establishment mentality.

The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures.

Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.

I see tech as... a force that is changing pretty much all parts of our society. It's really sad for me that we don't have enough women that are part of that.

Our mobile devices are so powerful that they don't just change what we do, they're changing who we are.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

Technology has become such a big part of our humanity. We have the Internet on 24 hours a day, even when we're sleeping.

As the world becomes a more digital place, we cannot forget about the human connection.