The user of the electric light -- or a hammer, or a language, or a book -- is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.
Letter to Edward T. Hall, January 21, 1971, Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p. 422
Year: 1971
Compiled by William Kuhns
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