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The tetrad has four laws of media: enhance, obsolesce, retrieve, and reverse1.
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The tetrad has four laws of media: enhance, obsolesce, retrieve, and reverse
# A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concept
“The four laws of media (enhance / obsolesce / retrieve / reverse)”
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"The tetrad has unusual potential as a structured forecasting tool"
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"The reversal quadrant maps onto the failure modes of contemporary AI deployment"
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