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creates a total and inclusive field of relations. Speed requires
that the decisions made be inclusive, not fragmentary or
partial, so that literate people typically resist the telephone.
But radio and TV, we shall see, have the same power of
imposing an inclusive order, as of an oral organization. Quite in
contrast is the centre-margin form of visual and written
structures of authority.
Many analysts have been misled by electric media because
of the seeming ability of these media to extend man’s spatial
powers of organization. Electric media, however, abolish the
spatial dimension, rather than enlarge it. By electricity, we
everywhere resume person-to-person relations as if on the
smallest village scale. It is a relation in depth, and without
delegation of functions or powers. The organic everywhere
supplants the mechanical. Dialogue supersedes the lecture. The