"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."
― Marshall McLuhan
Topic(s):
Imagination
More From Marshall McLuhan
- "I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
- "There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."
- "It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."
More In Imagination
- "I’ll confess right here that I secretly wish I’d have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination."― Berkeley Breathed
- "I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It’s those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling."― Jane Campion
- "The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them."― John Desmond Bernal