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noticed. The message of the electric light is like the message of
electric power in industry, totally radical, pervasive, and
decentralized. For electric light and power are separate from
their uses, yet they eliminate time and space factors in human
association exactly as do radio, telegraph, telephone, and TV,
creating involvement in depth.
A fairly complete handbook for studying the extensions of
man could be made up from selections from Shakespeare.
Some might quibble about whether or not he was referring to
TV in these familiar lines from Romeo and Juliet :
But soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It speaks, and yet says nothing.
In Othello , which, as much as King Lear , is concerned with the