The new electric environment of simultaneous and diversified information creates acoustic man. He is surrounded by sound - from behind, from the side, from above. His environment is made up of information in all kinds of simultaneous forms, and he puts on this electrical environment as we put on our clothes, or as the fish puts on water.
“Technology and the Human Dimension”: Marshall McLuhan with Louis Forsdale, in Marshall McLuhan: The Man and His Message (1989), p 15
Year: 1989
Chapter:
Acoustic Space
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan