With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree t… - Marshall McLuhan

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With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.