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For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

— Marshall McLuhan The Mechanical Bride (1951)

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Human perception is literally incarnation.

Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988)

As Innis got more insight he abandoned any mere point of view in his presentation of knowledge.

The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love (1973)

From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

Abraham Cowley Poems (1656)

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