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a) What does it enhance?Because like most things McLuhan it's fairly complicated, the examples help quite a bit. Take this one for the spoken word:
b) What does it obsolesce?
c) What does it retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier?
d) What does it flip into when pushed to the limits of its potential?
a) [Enhances:] "Speak that I may see thee." (Title of book by Harold Stahmer);
b) Obsolesces the subhuman;
c) Retrieves past experience;
d) [Flipped into when pushed to limits:] Group awareness and class structure.