The press is a group confessional form that provides communal participation. The book is a private confessional form that provides a “point of view.”… - Marshall McLuhan

The book is a private confessional form that provides a “point of view.”

The most human thing about us is our technology.

The reduction of the tactile qualities of life and language constitute the refinement sought in the Renaissance and repudiated now in the electronic age. (p. 272)

Psychic communal integration, made possible at last by the electronic media, could create the universality of consciousness foreseen by Dante when he predicted that men would continue as no more than broken fragments until they were unified into an inclusive consciousness...This is a new interpretation of the mystical body of Christ; and Christ, after all, is the ultimate extension of man.