requires no learning to hear 收聽不需要學習196;
retrieves town crier 使叫賣人再現189;
reverses into television 使電視逆轉16,189;
tetradic assessment of “媒介四定律”對廣播的評估16,189;
vs.television 廣播對電視52,107,108,154;
“wireless” “無線電”15,142,174,181
rap music as “cool” music 作為“酷”音樂的說唱樂 107,117
rationality:as consequence of alphabet(McLuhan)理性:拚音字母表的產物178;
as improvement 理性的178
Reagan,Ronald 羅納德·裏根 68,111-112,154-155
RealAudio 實時音頻,在線音頻播放5,38,155,175,176;
vs.broadcast radio 實時音頻對電台廣播49-50
RealVideo 實時視頻播放,在線視頻播放5,151,155
“rear-view mirror”(McLuhan)後視鏡(麥克盧漢)15-16,167,172-178,180-182,183-184,186,197;
and present as hypothetical midpoint between past and future 以過去和未來假設的中間點呈現181;
as narcissism 作為自戀性麻木的後視鏡174;
as tool for responding to media critics 作為回應媒介批評工具的後視鏡180;
clarifies uses of Internet 澄清互聯網的用處181;
indicates media within media 暗示媒介裏套媒介媒介174(see also media);
in music store 音樂店裏的後視鏡173-174;
linguistic 語言後視鏡173-174;
multiplicity of views in 後視鏡裏多樣景觀185-186;
pros and cons 後視鏡利弊176;
vs.“deep” retrieval(Levinson)後視鏡對“深度”再現175,194-195;
refrigeration 冷藏13,147;
makes delicatessen an art form 冷藏工藝使熟食成為一種藝術形式148
“remedial media”(Levinson)“補救性”媒介(萊文森)179-180,195,202;
fundamental to media evolution “補救性”媒介是媒介演化的基本理論179(see also “anthropotropic”);see also telephone:answering machine;VCR;window shade