A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The very nature of the telephone, as all electric media, is to compress and unify that which had previously been divided and specialized.
Understanding Media, 1964, MIT/Routledge, p 225
Quote #4611
Year: 1964
Chapters: Authority of Knowledge | Media Reprocess Media | Telephone | Television
↪ Also at #588, #6734
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