system
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human
What did McLuhan mean when he said that, in the electronic age, action and reaction will happen virtually simultaneously?

As I understand it, it ties into his whole point about our shifting perception of space and time according to the specific form/attributes of the new emergent media in the electronic age. But how can action and reaction occur simultaneously? How can our consciousness ever move beyond a sequential, causal understanding of our world? Is that even what he means? 

Any help would be appreciated.
gpt
Because we are all connected through our cellphones and computers, and rarely more than a few feet from some kind of device with instant, always on, access to the internet, we learn about things as they happen, and tend to react immediately to the thing that's happening. The more plugged in someone is, the shorter the time between event and reactions can be. In some cases, you have people reacting as though the causal event is over and they already know everything about it, even though said event is still taking place.