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On page 167 of The Greening of America Charles
Reich notes that “the medium is the message
means that there is no content in any medium.”
This statement is actually one of the few useful
remarks that has ever come to my attention
about anything I have written. It enables me to
see that the user of the electric light, or a
hammer, or a language, or a book, is the content.
As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the
user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis
that I consider the message.
Marshall McLuhan to Edward T. Hall, Jan. 21,
1971, Letters of Marshall McLuhan , (Toronto,