Marshall McLuhan Information Quotations

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.

Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.

When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

When information rubs against information the results are startling and effective. The perrenial quest for involvement, fill-in, takes many forms.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.