the psychic action of technology bespeaks some inherent 
function, some essential numbing of consciousness such as 
occurs under stress and shock conditions.

     The history of radio is instructive as an indicator of the 
bias and blindness induced in any society by its pre-existent 
technology. The word “wireless,” still used for radio in Britain, 
manifests the negative “horseless-carriage” attitude toward a 
new form. Early wireless was regarded as a form of telegraph, 
and was not seen even in relation to the telephone. David 
Sarnoff in 1916 sent a memo to the Director of the American 
Marconi Company that employed him, advocating the idea of a 
music box in the home. It was ignored. That was the year of the 
Irish Easter rebellion and of the first radio broadcast . Wireless 
had already been used on ships as ship-to-shore “telegraph.” 
The Irish rebels used a ship’s wireless to make, not a point-to-