Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/03199_Field_PREX T16.txt

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Previously, the “extensions of man” related to his
body, anything from his skin (clothing) to his
nervous system (electric circuitry). Each and all of
these extensions affected the transactions
between men and their previous environment. The
extension of the planet itself  meant that the
technology was not transported by individual or
collective man but by his previous environment—
the Earth. It became a totally new game with new
ground  rules. Our ground  now was literally the
sky. An aerial perspective had come to despotize
(from the Greek despotein  : for inclusive vision
from above; it is the Greek word for knowing
someing “inside out”). Whereas previous