McLuhan: Hardware.

Forsdale: Why?

McLuhan: Hardware is on paper, and pen and ink, and courier sending this missive to another party somewhere else.

Forsdale: You mean it’s not a transient thing.

McLuhan: It’s not instant. Electric is always instantaneous; there’s no delay. That’s why you don’t have a body. Instantaneous communication is minus the body. So that began with the telegraph. The telegraph also has that built-in dimension of the instantaneous and it completely transformed news and information. The mere speed. Didn’t