"We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to create a bias in civilization favourable to an over-emphasis on the time concept or on the space concept and only at rare intervals are the biases offset by the influence of another medium and stability achieved."

Source : Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.99, University of Toronto Press

Harold Innis

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