MCMANUS: Would you like to tell us whether the country is going to stay together or not? And thereby be telling us what's happening to us now?
MCLUHAN: Well, that is a... I don't know if I'd call that a prophecy or not. There is a sense in which the separatism occurred long ago. But there is a hardware sense in which it is still intact. The country is still intact in a hardware sense, a legal sense. It is the hardware, I think, that is under danger under electric conditions. The hardware world tends to move into software form at the speed of light.