The culturally depraved, or deprived, can now join hands in a daisy-ring of electronic circuitry. Henceforth we shall see all of both the most elevated and degraded features of man simultaneously enlarged to as least planetary scale. Man-as-'Cyborg' can exploit the possibility either of total extension of his consciousness as a world environment or as a perpetual and collective organism of war.
“Inflation as new rim-spin,” The McLuhan DEW-Line Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1, September, 1969
Year: 1969
Compiled by William Kuhns
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© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan