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01The visual detourThe internet from about 1990 to 2022 as a fifty-year swing back toward print — screens of text and keyboards — inside the longer return to speech that McLuhan predicted, now ending as voice interfaces take over.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending10 Oct

02Where does speaking start to beat typing?There is no established academic literature using the specific term "friction threshold" for voice.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen10 Oct

03Does naming a feeling work the way McLuhan said language works?Based on this search pass: no published work explicitly bridges McLuhan's medium-of-media theory of language to either Lieberman's affect-labeling neuroscience or Barkley/Vygotsky inner-speech theory.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen10 Oct

04Can the tetrad forecast what AI turns into?The tetrad has been little applied to the major artifacts of the present: large language models, recommender systems, the smartphone-plus-app stack, cryptocurrency, the cloud, augmented reality.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen10 Oct

05Did the text-internet generation think differently from the video one?No study compares a typographic-internet cohort with a video-internet cohort.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen9 Oct

06NarcocrasisIn drug dependence, the part a person stops noticing is not the drug but their own shifted baseline: flatter pleasures, a restless body, a raised stress tone. The drug feels like the fix; the changed baseline feels like how the world is.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending5 Oct

07AnacrasisRecovery as re-setting that baseline, not only removing the drug. The ancient Greek word anakrasis meant mixing with others, and the evidence points the same way: what helps the reset last is other people.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending5 Oct

08PharmakrasisEvery class of drug sets its own characteristic balance of the senses: cannabis speeds felt time, ketamine loosens the sense of owning a body, LSD deepens the response to music. A drug, on this view, is a technology of the senses, like a medium but more direct.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending5 Oct

09HeterocrasisPeople start from different balances of the senses before any medium touches them. ADHD may be one such starting point, most clearly in how loudly the brain turns all its signals up or down.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending5 Oct

10ExocrasisPart of how we sense and remember now lives outside the body, in keyboards, search, saved files and the network. The computing environment holds some of the balance the brain used to hold.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending5 Oct

11Sensory syncrasisThe whole configuration of how the brain blends its senses: how much it trusts each one, how loud it turns them all, whether it fuses or separates them, the balance between body and world, and how long a setting lasts. From the Greek root of idiosyncrasy.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending4 Oct

12TypomoraThe typed delay in McLuhan's predicted return to voice: fifty years in which the keyboard, not the medium, kept networked communication typographic. Typos, type, and mora, delay — also the unit of spoken time.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending4 Oct

13EpanaphonyThe return of voice as the way we put language into machines — dictation, voice notes, talking to AI — that closes the typomora. Oral in production, typographic in storage.ConceptMcLuhan & media theoryName check pending4 Oct

14Does talking to an AI change how you think?No peer-reviewed study tests how voice conversation with an AI affects memory, composition or thinking. The one widely cited study of AI and thinking was typed, and is an unreviewed preprint.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen4 Oct

15Does typing weaken speaking?No study shows that heavy typing degrades speech production, or that heavy speaking improves typed composition. Whether practice in one carries over to the other is untested.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen4 Oct

16Does dictation train speech?No peer-reviewed study shows that dictation or speech-to-text improves unaided spoken fluency or confidence. Speech-recognition feedback does improve pronunciation, which makes it a testable idea.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen4 Oct

17Do screens shift the balance of the senses?Nobody has measured whether what children watch or play changes which sense dominates when sight and sound compete — the closest measurable form of McLuhan's sense ratio.Open problemMcLuhan & media theoryOpen4 Oct

18The Acoustic-Space and Neurological Claims: Literal or Metaphorical?A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concepts, Neuroscience, Unexplored Territory, and Critical ReceptionQuestionMcLuhan & media theory22 Jul