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The partial and specialized character of the viewpoint, however noble, will not serve at all in the electric age.
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Consciousness is not a verbal process.
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The gadget lover – Narcissus as narcosis
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A tribal … hierarchy of traditional kind collapses quickly when it meets any hot medium of the mechanical, uniform, and repetitive kind.
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Myth is contraction or implosion of any process.
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The stimulus to new invention is the stress of acceleration of pace and increase of load.
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The effects of technology do not occur at the level of opinion, but alter patterns of perception steadily and without any resistance.
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More and more we turn from the content of messages to study total effect.
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Any hot medium allows of less participation than a cool one, as a lecture makes for less participation than a seminar.
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The telephone is a cool medium or one of low definition, because the ear is given a meager amount of information.
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Involvement that goes with our instant technologies transforms the most “socially conscious” people into conservatives.
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War and the fear of war have always been considered the main incentives to technological extension of our bodies.
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…men at once become fascinated by any extension of themselves in any material other than themselves.
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The effect of electric technology had at first been anxiety. Now it appears to create boredom.
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Today the road beyond its break boundary turns cities into highways, and the highway proper takes on a continuous urban character.
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The stepping-up of speed from the mechanical to the instant electric form reverses explosion into implosion.
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A good reader tends to be a very quick decision maker. And a good reader, a highly literate person, tends to be a good executive.
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The typographic principles of uniformity, continuity, and lineality had overlaid the complexities of ancient feudal and oral society.
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It is [a] fact that everybody in the world has to live in the utmost proximity created by our electric involvement in one another’s lives.
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