“The Gutenberg galaxy was theoretically dissolved in 1905 with the discovery of curved space, but in practice it had been invaded by the telegraph two generations before that.”

—  Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 286

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