Marshall McLuhan Quotes About Innovation
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The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.
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Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.
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Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.
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We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
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I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I’m resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons.
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In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.
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Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.
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If it works, it's obsolete.
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