In order to understand inflation in a world of instantaneous and universal information it is necessary to see the old hardware of products and prices as they now interface with the new hidden ground of worldwide and instant information. It is not only a new ball game; it is a new ballpark with new ground rules when the old industrial production of hardware technology is suddenly located inside an environment of simultaneous electric information.
Media and the Inflation CROWD, 1973, in The Man and His Message, 1989, p 61
Year: 1973
Chapter:
Instantaneous
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
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