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The medium is the message. Th...

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

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Mass transportation is doomed...

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.

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Madison Avenue is a very powe...

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

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Publication is a self-invasio...

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

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Innumerable confusions and a ...

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

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Antipathy, dissimilarity of v...

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

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It is the framework which cha...

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

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Money is just the poor man's ...

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

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Politics will eventually be r...

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

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We become what we behold. We ...

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

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The car has become the carapa...

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

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We drive into the future usin...

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

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When producers want to know w...

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

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Canada is the only country in...

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

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One of the effects of living ...

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

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Diaper backward spells repaid...

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

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The new electronic independen...

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

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As technology advances, it re...

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.'

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Ideally, advertising aims at ...

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

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I wouldn't have seen it if I ...

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

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