"World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation."
"The potential of any technology is always dissipated by its users involvement in its predecessors...Computer are still serving mainly to sustain precomputer effects."
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Source: Classroom Without Walls. Explorations Magazine, Volume 7, 1957; reprinted in Explorations in Communication edited by E. Carpenter and M. McLuhan, 1960, and in McLuhan: Hot and Cool edited by Gerald Emanuel Stearn, 1967.
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