“Marx shared with economists then and since the inability to make his concepts include innovational processes. It is one thing to spot a new product but quite another to observe the invisible new environments generated by the action of the product on a variety of pre-existing social grounds.”

—  Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1970s, Take Today : The Executive as Dropout (1972), p. 63

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