This is the first installment in a new category of post called Q&A. When I receive interesting questions, I’ll post the answers here on my blog. Got a question? Fire away!
No. McLuhan’s electronic media were all variously complex devices of electronic components: oscillators and electron valves (vacuum tubes and transistors) modulating and adjusting waves of current which were analogous to sound patterns, light patterns, etc. They instantaneously transmitted the energies raw reality transduced into the charge in a conductor. That’s what Morse discovered crossing the ocean back from Europe at the end of a trip he had embarked upon to distract himself from his sorrows. While traveling in America, he received a letter too-late, warning of his wife’s sudden sickness and returned home to find he had missed her funeral and burial. During dinner, onboard a ship called the …