A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

TV is not just sight and sound but tangibility in its visual, contoured, sculptural mode. What have been the social effects of this sudden extension of our sight-touch powers? What have been the specific changes in our attitudes to public space, to privacy, and to the nature of environmental materials resulting from TV?
“Insidethe Five Sense Sensorium” (1961), p 51
Year: 1961
Chapter: Television
Compiled by William Kuhns
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