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“Our electrically configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition.”

  • Marshall McLuhan, 1967
Ours is a brand new world of allatonceness. "Time" has ceased. "Space" has vanished. We now live in a global village...a simultaneous happening. We are back in acoustic space. We have begun again to structure the primordial feeling, the tribal emotions from which a few centuries of literacy divorced us. We have had to shift our stress of attention from action to reaction. ... Electronic circuitry profoundly involves men with one another. Information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously. Our electrically configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all the factors of the environment and of experience coexist in the state of active interplay. - The Medium Is The Message. McLuhan & Fiore (1967, p. 63)
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