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The piece in your July 28 issue on “The Meaning of
the Message” does not give the reader any idea of
what I mean by a medium.
Every medium or technology creates a service
environment. Thus the motor car creates
super-highways, suburbs, gas stations, etc. It is
this environment of service and disservice which I
call medium. Since this environment of services is
a kind of “text,” it has its own peculiar syntax and
grammar. It is this medium which invades and
reshapes every aspect of the social and psychic
life of the users of the technology, regardless of
what the car or radio or TV set is used for. Xerox,