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.


Letter to Robert Fulford, 1964. Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 300

Marshall McLuhan Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...