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the extensions of man—the technological simulation of
consciousness, when the creative process of knowing will be
collectively and corporately extended to the whole of human
society, much as we have already extended our senses and our
nerves by the various media. Whether the extension of
consciousness, so long sought by advertisers for specific
products, will be “a good thing” is a question that admits of a
wide solution. There is little possibility of answering such
questions about the extensions of man without considering all
of them together. Any extension, whether of skin, hand, or
foot, affects the whole psychic and social complex.
Some of the principal extensions, together with some of
their psychic and social consequences, are studied in this book.
Just how little consideration has been given to such matters in
the past can be gathered from the consternation of one of the