Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/06718_Field_TCUM T283.txt

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complex lives leads naturally to a new balance among our
technologically extended faculties, resulting in a new look and a
new “outlook” with new motivations and inventions.

     In the twentieth century we are familiar with the changes
in housing and architecture that are the result of electric
energy made available to elevators. The same energy devoted
to lighting has altered our living and working spaces even more
radically. Electric light abolished the divisions of night and day,
of inner and outer, and of the subterranean and the terrestrial.
It altered every consideration of space for work and production
as much as the other electric media had altered the space-time
experience of society. All this is reasonably familiar. Less
familiar is the architectural revolution made possible by
improvements in heating centuries ago. With the mining of coal
on a large scale in the Renaissance, inhabitants in the colder