“The absence of space brings to mind the idea of a village. But actually, at the speed of light, the planet is not much bigger than this room we're in. In terms of time and the speed of the event that are now programmed, they hit each other so fast that even a village is too big a thing to use for a comparison. The acoustic or simultaneous space in which we now live is like a sphere whose center is everywhere and whose margins are nowhere. Acoustic space cannot be cut into pieces, as visual space can. It is both compressed and indivisible.”
“Technology and the Human Dimension”, Interview with Louis Forsdale, 1974, reprinted in Marshall McLuhan: the Man and His Message (1989), p 24
Year: 1974
Chapter:
Speedups
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan