Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
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Marshall McLuhan
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About Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Raised in Winnipeg, McLuhan studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life. He is known as "the father of media studies".
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Marshall McLuhanAdvertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
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As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'