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To understand the networked self, we must first understand the self, which is a ceaseless endeavor. The ultimate problem of the Internet might stem not from the discrete technology but from the Frankensteinian way in which humanity’s invention has exceeded our own capacities.

Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines

In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours.

Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Hot forms of media, McLuhan says, are generally low in audience participation. They provide people with a lot of information and data. He describes them as mechanical and uniform. It’s very one-way. One party is giving the information; the audience is receiving the information. And that’s pretty much it. Examples of this would be things like books,... See more

Marshall McLuhan • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

was Julien Benda’s Great Betrayal that helped to clarify the new situation in which the intellectual suddenly holds the whip hand in society.

Marshall McLuhan • Understanding Media

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.
― Marshall McLuhan

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

Marshall McLuhan

Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us

A great Marshall McLuhan quote on the speech-to-text transition:

Until writing was invented, men lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. The goose quill put an end to talk. It abolished mystery; it gave

Jasmine • the post-literate society

For just as a metaphor transforms and transmits experience, so do the media.

Marshall McLuhan • Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon - Understanding Media_ the Extensions of Man_ Critical Edition-Gingko Press

Introduce the alphabet to a culture and you change its cognitive habits, its social relations, its notions of community, history and religion. Introduce the printing press with movable type, and you do the same. Introduce speed-of-light transmission of images and you make a cultural revolution. Without a vote. Without polemics. Without guerrilla re