McLuhan, Marshall
The electronic age (…) angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software. (1971)
The future of the future is the present. (1967)
What we ordinarily think of as present is really past.
In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin. (1964)
The alphabet (and its extension into typography) made possible the spread of the power that is knowledge and shattered the bonds of tribal man, thus exploding him into an agglomeration of individuals. Electric writing and speed pour upon him instantaneously and continuously the concerns of all other men. He becomes tribal once more. The human family becomes one tribe again. (1964)
A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. (1964)
