Phonetic Writing & The Alphabet

McLuhan: No, I guess I could include myself. Havelock in his Preface To Plato , has quite a bit to say about some of the transformations of the human psyche resulting from use of the phonetic alphabet. Eric Havelock. However, Havelock, was a student of, or colleague of, Harold Innis at the University of Toronto and Innis was the first man since the alphabet was instituted twenty-five hundred years ago—Harold Innis was the first man to study the effects of the alphabet on people and politics. Havelock was a student of Harold Innis and carried on that work. I am a student of Harold Innis and I’m carrying on his work.

Forsdale: Empire and Communication , Bias of Communication , books by the late Harold Innis.