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The electric media are a physical extension of our
own organic nervous system, which is literally
constituted by electric impulses. When you put an
electric system, or field, around you, you enlarge
your own nervous system. Just as the wheel
extends your foot, the “wired planet” now extends
our nerves. All technology is a physical extension
of man, and our bodies, said Emerson, are a
“magazine” or storehouse of all past, present,
and future innovations.
Marshall McLuhan,“Technology and the Human
Dimension,” Marshall McLuhan: The Man and His
Message , (Golden, 1989), p.12.