“The term 'communication' has had an extensive use in connection with roads and bridges, sea routes, rivers, and canals, even before it became transformed into 'information movement' in the electric age. Perhaps there is no more suitable way of defining the character of the electric age than by first studying the rise of the idea of transportation as communication, and then the transition of the idea from transport to information by means of electricity.”
— Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Tagged: Bridges, Communications, Electricity, History Of Communication, Roads
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