Our extensions

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us intouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the massage. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

All

media

are

extensions

of

some

human

faculty-

psychic

or

physical.

McLuhan, Marshall and Fiore, Quentin. The Medium is the Massage – An Inventory of Effects. Gingko Press: 2001. p. 26.