It makes no difference whatever whether one considers as artefacts or as media things of a tangible ‘hardware’ nature such as bowls and clubs or forks and spoons, or tools and devices and engines, railways, a spacecraft, radios, computer, and soon, or things of a ‘software’ nature such as theories or laws of science, philosophical systems, remedies or even the diseases in medicine, forms or style in painting or poetry or dreams or music, and so on. All are equally artefacts, all equally human, all equally susceptible to analysis, all equally verbal in structure.
Introduction, Laws of Media: The New Science with Eric McLuhan, (1988), p 3
Year: 1988
Compiled by William Kuhns
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