It was not until the advent of the telegraph that messages could travel faster than a messenger. Before this, roads and the written word were closely interrelated. It is only since the telegraph that information has detached itself from such solid commodities as stone and papyrus.
-Marshall McLuhan
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964), p. 89
How does the disembodiment of information affect our perception of it?
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