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This fall I became the Director of a new centre at
the University of Toronto for the study of the
extensions of man. All our culture and technology
are immediate extensions of our own bodies and
senses and nervous systems. But each extension
has quite distinct psychic and social
consequences. We hope to study them all. I began
with the study of the extension of the sense of
sight via Gutenberg technology in a book called
The Gutenberg Galaxy (University of Toronto
Press, 1962). Some indication of its drift you can
gather from the enclosed leader in the Times
Literary Supplement , which I wrote recently.
McGraw-Hill is bringing out a sequel to this, in