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One new sidelight on “the medium is the
message” is perhaps relevant. When a new service
environment such as that of Gutenberg
typography begins to come into play, all existing
forms are processed through that new form. All
inputs, old and new, thus acquire the same final
form. The Gutenberg environment processed every
type of human awareness and activity from
Machiavelli to Ben Franklin. Every kind of
knowledge becomes applied knowledge by this
process. By the same token, when the satellites
go around the planet, Nature is scrapped and the
planet becomes an art form. Nature itself appears
as a mess. Pollution becomes universal awareness