The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.

Quote by Marshall McLuhan

Topics: Age Quotes, Technology Quotes

Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell...

Good wine needs no bush, and perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell...

Class in society is determined by voice

Class in society is determined by voice

If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a...

If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a...

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for...

In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for...

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

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

Acoustic space has the basic character of a sphere whose focus or centre is simultaneously...

Acoustic space has the basic character of a sphere whose focus or centre is simultaneously...

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher,...

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher,...

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting...

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting...

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon

Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is wasted on the young.

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man...

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man...

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance...

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance...

Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly...

Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly...

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous...

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous...

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place...

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place...

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old,...

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old,...

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every...

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every...

It takes a long time to become young.

It takes a long time to become young.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose...

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose...