extensions had altered the speed of human 
motions in a great variety of ways, freely 
hybridizing with one another, the new extensions 
of the planet seemed to call despotically for a new 
harmonizing of the spheres of action, influence, 
and knowledge.

Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt, Take  
Today: The Executive as Dropout , (New York, 
1972), p. 293.