To say that a body or its gravitational field 'bends in space' in its vicinity is the discuss visual space in acoustic terms. - Marshall McLuhan

The present volume to this point might be regarded as a gloss on a single text of Harold Innis: "The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to communication industries hastened the consolidation of vernaculars, the rise of nationalism, revolution, and new outbreaks of savagery in the twentieth century."

All of the new media have enriched our perceptions of language and older media. They are to the man-made environment what species are to biology. (p. 84)

Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.