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The effect of a new staple or natural resource
upon an economy is much the same as the effect
of a new medium. But the sense in which a new
medium is a staple depends upon recognizing that
media are the technological externalization of our
senses. Such was phonetic writing. Such is radio.
When electronics makes possible access to the
human senses as natural resource, the whole
nature of commodity and of services undergoes
transformation.
Marshall McLuhan to Peter Drucker, April 26,
1960, Letters of Marshall McLuhan , (Toronto,
1987) p. 270.