It had not occurred to Innis that electricity is in effect an extension of the nervous system as a kind of global membrane.
Introduction to H.A. Innis’s The Bias of Communication (1962), p 15, also in “Media and Cultural Change,” in The Essential McLuhan (1995), p 94
Year: 1962
Compiled by William Kuhns
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© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan