home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Understanding McLuhan
/
Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso
/
pc
/
mcluhan.dxr
/
06517_Field_TCUM T82.txt
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1996-04-10
|
790b
|
16 lines
hand, airplane and radio permit the utmost discontinuity and
diversity in spatial organization.
Today the great principle of classical physics and
economics and political science, namely that of the divisibility
of each process, has reversed itself by sheer extension into the
unified field theory; and automation in industry replaces the
divisibility of process with the organic interlacing of all
functions in the complex. The electric tape succeeds the
assembly line.
In the new electric Age of Information and programmed
production, commodities themselves assume more and more
the character of information, although this trend appears
mainly in the increasing advertising budget. Significantly, it is
those commodities that are most used in social