creates a total and inclusive field of relations. Speed requires 
that the decisions made be inclusive, not fragmentary or 
partial, so that literate people typically resist the telephone. 
But radio and TV, we shall see, have the same power of 
imposing an inclusive order, as of an oral organization. Quite in 
contrast is the centre-margin form of visual and written 
structures of authority.

     Many analysts have been misled by electric media because 
of the seeming ability of these media to extend man’s spatial 
powers of organization. Electric media, however, abolish the 
spatial dimension, rather than enlarge it. By electricity, we 
everywhere resume person-to-person relations as if on the 
smallest village scale. It is a relation in depth, and without 
delegation of functions or powers. The organic everywhere 
supplants the mechanical. Dialogue supersedes the lecture. The