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The new service environment created by the
increased speed and power of steam, as the new
extension of man, was hidden from [Karl] Marx,
and all economists then and since. Like Marx, they
saw the “content” of the process in the form of
“hardware” products pouring out at even greater
speed. The “message” of steam as the new
“medium” was not the products, but the
acceleration of all the functions in the social
surround, i.e., the new “rim spin.”
Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt, Take
Today: The Executive as Dropout , (New York,
1972), p. 63.