However Precious

File this under scary and depressing.

“When the globe becomes a single electronic web with all its languages and culture recorded on a single tribal drum, the fixed point of view of print culture becomes irrelevant, however precious.” –  Marshall McLuhan

I found the quote in Bob Rodgers’ wonderful essay, “In the Garden with the Guru”, in the January/February 2008 issue of “Literary Review of Canada” –
http://lrc.reviewcanada.ca/index.php?page=In-the-Garden-with-the-Guru

Tags: Books, Marshall McLuhan