Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
Marshall McLuhan
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- 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.'
- Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
- If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
- American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
- In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.