“We have been through enough revolutions to know that every medium of communication is a unique art form which gives salience to one set of human possibilities at the expense of another set.”
About This Quote
In this quote, McLuhan is talking about how Socrates saw such great danger in the advent of the new technology of writing over the oral tradition. McLuhan remarks that as time as passed we see that with all the new communication technologies come advantages and disadvantages.
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